Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica that aided recent USA and Brexit campaigns
Facebook suspended the profile of Cambridge Analytica, a well-known, British data analytics firm. The profiles of Strategic Communication Laboratories, Cambridge University psychologist Aleksander Kogan and the head of Eunoia Technologies, Christopher Wylie, were also suspended. Paul Grewal, Vice President of Facebook confirmed that Professor Kogan in 2015 had violated policies by passing data to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by Robert Mercer, big supporter of Trump. It is believed that the company had an important role during the American elections and the Brexit referendum. Kogan's app, thisisyourdigitallife, proposed a predictive personality test, describing on the social network as "a search app used by psychologists". The app got the information legitimately, but it violated Facebook's platform policies" passing the information to SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Eunoia Technologies. The app also collected other information, such...