Security News > 2018 > April > Twitter sold data access to Cambridge Analytica-affiliated researcher
2018-04-30 17:34
Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the academic behind the personality quiz app that harvested Facebook information of 80+ million people, has also had access to a random sample of public tweets posted during a five-month period. Twitter has confirmed that Kogan, through his company Global Science Research (GSR), has bought access to those tweets and the usernames, photos, profile pictures and location data of the users who posted them from Twitter. “In 2015, GSR did have one-time … More → The post Twitter sold data access to Cambridge Analytica-affiliated researcher appeared first on Help Net Security.
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