Cambridge Analytica, data processing company, which was in the center of the scandal with the leak of Facebook and where Donald trump partly owe my choice for President, going out of business. According to the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous source, all operations ceased and the office closes. Moreover, the parent company SCL Group closes all offices in the USA and disables access for employees.
Julian Wetland, the current Chairman of SCL Group, said that any attempt rebranding of the company will be “futile” in the current environment. This is not surprising, given the waves stirred up scandal Facebook: the company lost more than 30% in the market capitalization, which is a huge amount.
“Explaining the decision to close the offices, Wetland referred to the ongoing investigation of mass data collection Cambridge Analytica, damage the company’s reputation and loss of customers.” Numerous reports say that Cambridge Analytica promised clients more than the put, and people in the political campaign of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump suggested that the work and influence of Cambridge Analytica was wildly inflated.
2014, the Cambridge University Professor Alexander Kogan thisisyourdigitallife created an application in which after login through Facebook it was possible to pass a psychological test for a fee. Through the app have been about 270 thousand people, opening access to the data of 50 million users.
In 2015, Facebook app suspected of violating the rules: gather data about users and their social network allows friends provided that they will remain the owner of the application and will not be disclosed to third parties. We also found out that Professor Cohen just sold data Cambridge Analytica and Eunoia Technologies.
After the success of trump’s election, in early 2018, Channel 4 News showed a recording made covert shooting where the head of the Cambridge Analytica talks about the possibility of intervention in elections of any country (of course, with reference to the merged data). According to preliminary results of the investigation, Cambridge Analytica used illicitly obtained Facebook data to place highly effective advertisements and to influence the opinion of users of the social network.
By 21 March, Facebook lost more than $ 60 billion capitalization.
Cambridge Analytica — all. Scandal Facebook has put an end to the company
Ilya Hel