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The psychology behind Facebook data breach

Video        BBC News        4 April 2018

Facebook has said it now believes

up to 87 million people's data

was improperly shared

with the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica

- many more than previously disclosed.

The BBC has been told

that about 1.1 million of them are UK-based.

The overall figure had been previously quoted

 as being 50 million

by the whistleblower Christopher Wylie.

The details were revealed in a blog

by the tech firm's chief technology officer,

Mike Schroepfer.

The BBC has also learned

that Facebook now estimates

that about 305,000 people had installed

the This Is Your Digital Life quiz

that had made the data-harvesting possible.

The figure previously suggested

had been 270,000.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84gTofMPz1k

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower:

'We spent $1m

harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'

G    17 March 2018

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower:

'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'

Video        G        17 March 2018

Christopher Wylie,

who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica,

reveals how personal information was taken

without authorisation in early 2014

to build a system that could profile individual US voters

in order to target them

with personalised political advertisements.

At the time the company was owned

by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer,

and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser,

Steve Bannon. Its CEO is Alexander Nix

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdYSQ6nu-M

What is the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

G    20 March 2018

What is the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

Video        G        20 March 2018

Cambridge Analytica

claims to use data 'to change audience behaviour'.

But now a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie,

has come forward to expose the company's practices.

Wylie describes how its CEO, Alexander Nix,

attracted support from the then Breitbart editor, Steve Bannon,

and investment from the billionaire Robert Mercer

before obtaining help from the Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan

to harvest tens of millions of Facebook profiles

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91nvbJSmS4

Cambridge Analytica:

Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm

C4    20 March 2018

Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm

Video        Channel 4 News        20 March 2018

An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed

how Cambridge Analytica claims

it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign

- and may have broken election law.

Executives were secretly filmed

saying they leave ‘no paper trail’.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=cy-9iciNF1A

Cambridge Analytica scandal / files        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/tags/467415574/cambridge-analytica

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/
cambridge-analytica-files

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/23
/the-great-hack-review-cambridge-analytica-facebook-carole-cadwalladr-arron-banks

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/17/
cambridge-analytica-year-on-lesson-in-institutional-failure-christopher-wylie

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/23/
cambridge-analytica-facebook-scoop-carole-cadwalladr-shocked-world-truth-still-elusive

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/dec/20/
windrush-brexit-trump-cambridge-analytica-looking-back-2018-podcast

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/
opinion/facebook-silicon-valley-regulation.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/
601163176/how-to-check-if-your-facebook-data-was-used-by-cambridge-analytica

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/09/
600833691/report-facebook-suspends-another-data-analytics-firm-as-scandal-widens

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/09/
600819760/was-your-facebook-information-used-or-shared-by-cambridge-analytica

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/
599761391/full-transcript-facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-on-protecting-user-data

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/
599542151/facebook-says-cambridge-analytica-data-grab-may-be-much-bigger-than-first-report

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/28/
597587830/criticism-prompts-facebook-to-change-privacy-controls

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/27/
597279596/they-don-t-care-whistleblower-says-cambridge-analytica-seeks-to-undermine-democr

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=U4qooWtovhU - WSJ - 27 March 2018

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=7SAPxYpoHXw - RT UK - 27 March 2018

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/24/
596206770/is-it-even-possible-to-protect-your-privacy-on-facebook

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/24/
596541930/a-country-divided-click-by-click

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/23/
596558772/u-k-investigators-raid-cambridge-analytica-offices-in-london

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/
595535935/cambridge-analyticas-role-in-trump-s-2016-campaign-raises-potential-legal-flags

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/21/
595470164/in-hidden-camera-expose-cambridge-analytica-executives-boast-of-role-in-trump-wi

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?time_continue=45&v=cy-9iciNF1A - Channel 4 - 20 March 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/
595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/20/
595124809/u-k-seeks-search-warrant-on-cambridge-analytica-ceo-seen-in-hidden-camera-report

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