Cambridge Analytica data miner sues Facebook | Mobile Marketing Magazine
The man who built the app that helped Cambridge Analytica to collect the data of tens of millions of Facebook users is suing the social network, claiming that the company defamed him when it said that he had lied about what the plans were for the data. Aleksandr Kogan, an academic and former research associate at the University of Cambridge, obtained the data of Facebook users via an app called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’ before then passing on this data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has always claimed that Kogan said the data would be used for academic purposes. However, Kogan argues that his app did have a fine print that said the information could be used commercially. Nonetheless, this still would...
18 Mar 2019 ... The man who built the app that helped Cambridge Analytica to collect the data of tens of millions of Facebook users is suing the social network, ...