Cambridge Analytica email chain with Facebook sheds new light on data misuse scandal

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Cambridge Analytica email chain with Facebook sheds new light on data misuse scandal

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser has released new documents today that illuminate the initial jockeying between the company and Facebook as they discussed the need for Cambridge Analytica to delete data associated with 87 million Facebook users' profiles.

The data was improperly obtained in 2014 by researchers with access to Facebook's developer platform who were being paid by Cambridge Analytica to obtain and process social media users' information for the purpose of targeting political ads.

In December 2015 a Guardian article about Cambridge academic Dr Aleksandr Spectre (Kogan) outlined how he had acquired the Facebook profiles for research, and that Cambridge Analytica had improperly acquired that data.

In subsequent Washington Senate hearings into the scandal, Mark Zuckerburg apologized for having failed to check that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the information.

At the time he said: "When we heard back from Cambridge Analytica that they had told us that they weren't using the data and deleted it, we considered it a closed case. In retrospect, that was clearly a mistake. We shouldn't have taken their word for it. We've updated our policy to make sure we don't make that mistake again."

Instead, Facebook let the political consultancy self-certify via email and then in a signed document [found below] that it had destroyed the records, which the social network said had been acquired in violation of its rules.

Cambridge Analytica data deletion certification from CEO Alexander Nix, delivered to Facebook in January 2016

Furthermore, for example, in a submission to the UK Parliament, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer said: "In late 2015, whe



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