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| Facebook Still Employs Researcher Who Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica |
| 2018-04-12 |
| [PJ] In a startling revelation, it's just been discovered that Facebook still employs one of the two researchers responsible for the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users and selling it to Cambridge Analytica, according to reports. The researcher, Joseph Chancellor, is now working at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., as an in-house psychologist. Prior to his Facebook employment, Chancellor was a co-director of Global Science Research (GSR) with Aleksandr Kogan. GSR is the same company that created a personality app that was purported to be academic research, but in fact, was designed to elicit personal information that was then shared with Cambridge Analytica. He began working at Facebook in late 2015, shortly after leaving GSR. By the time he left GSR, the company had acquired personal data on millions of Facebook users. According to The Guardian, "Chancellor is working as a researcher at Facebook’s headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast trove of data on more than 2 billion users." "It is not known how much Chancellor knew of the operation to harvest the data of more than 50 million Facebook users and pass their information on to the company that went on to run data analytics for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign," The Guardian reported. Facebook recently announced it had suspended both Kogan and Cambridge Analytica from using the platform, pending an investigation, but made no mention of Chancellor. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Protective custody. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-12 13:48 |
| #3 Sold data. Where'd the money go? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-04-12 12:21 |
| #2 He's still engaged in the 2018 DNC Congressional project. May leave when worked completed. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-04-12 11:15 |
| #1 In a startling revelation "Startling" to some possibly. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-12 09:09 |