Political consultancy,under fire over employ of millions of Facebook users’ data, has begun insolvency proceedingsCambridge Analytica, and the data firm at the centre of this year’s Facebook privacy row,is closing and starting insolvency proceedings.
The company has been plagued by scandal since the Observer reported that the personal data of about 50 million Americans and at least a million Britons had been harvested from Facebook and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. Related: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach Related: Cambridge Analytica: five key claims by academic at heart of scandal Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com