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Cambridge Analytica: Facebook data-harvest firm to shut

  • May 2, 2018
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2nd May, 2018
 
Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down.
 
The firm was accused of improperly obtaining personal information on behalf of political clients.
 
According to Facebook, data about up to 87 million of its members was harvested by an app and then passed onto the political consultancy.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43983958