6 hours agoCambridge Analytica Scandal, confession to the main cause
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Alexander Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher who had used the Facebook app, GSR, to collect data from users of millions of Americans, said he had used the social network reasonably, as his former associate, Joseph Chanceler, thought that approach did not present a problem. “I think [...]
I think they understand their platform has been mined left and right by thousands of others and I was just the unfortunate person who ended up somewhat connected to Trump campaign and we are where we are,” said Kogan.
Kogan and Chancelore established GSR in 2014, and received data from the mother's Camridge Analytica company. Chanceloer was withdrawn in 2015 to join Facebook, reports The Guardian”, broadcast Periscope.
Kogan also argued that his firm did not need the approval of ethics by Cambridge University, as “has no real mechanism for a company to seek the adoption of ethics for a commercial deal. ”
Kogan acknowledged that, during the transfer of data he had collected from Facebook, he had acted against specific words of his agreement that were in the process of developing the key idea.
Despite the consequences of his cremature being political, he does not accept such a thing before the British parliament. /Periscopi/
