Facebook suspends the Trump campaign’s data-mining firm amid revelations of a major data breach - MIT Technology Review

Facebook suspends the Trump campaign’s data-mining firm amid revelations of a major data breach - MIT Technology Review: Facebook has blocked Cambridge Analytica, which provided data to the Trump election campaign The news: In a blog post late on March 16, Facebook’s deputy general counsel said Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) and its political data arm, Cambridge Analytica, had their access to the platform suspended for violating data use policies. The details: According to Facebook, Aleksander Kogan, a psychology professor at Cambridge University in the UK, had collected various kinds of personal data using an app on the social network. Billed as a research vehicle for psychologists, the app, downloaded by approximately 270,000 people, asked them to share things such as content they had liked and the city they’d listed on their Facebook profile. The social network says that Kogan passed the information to SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies in violation of its rules. When it discovered this in 2015, it removed the app and asked Kogan, SCL/Cambridge Analytica, and Wylie to certify they had destroyed the data collected. All three parties said they had done so. But according to its post, Facebook recently received reports that not all the information had bee