Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica

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privacy-violationelection-interferencedata-harvestingcambridge-analytica
Regulatory CaptureElectoral Manipulation
Actors:Aleksandr Kogan, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research
2013-06-01 · 1 min read

Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan developed a personality-quiz app that collected data via Facebook's API and shared it with Cambridge Analytica. Regulators later documented deceptive practices; Facebook estimated up to ~87 million users were affected.

Sources

  1. UK Parliament DCMS—'Disinformation and fake news' (evidence)UK Parliament DCMS Committee(2019-02-18)
  2. FTC administrative complaint—Cambridge Analytica, Nix & KoganFederal Trade Commission(2019-07-24)
  3. Hard Questions—Russian Ads Delivered to Congress (platform context)Meta (Facebook) Newsroom(2017-10-02)