Cambridge Analytica: Massachusetts attorney general promises investigation after Facebook suspends data company used by Trump campaign

Cambridge Analytica: Massachusetts attorney general promises investigation after Facebook suspends data company used by Trump campaignThe attorney general of Massachusetts has said she will be opening an investigation into a data firm used by Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 presidential election, after Facebook suspend the company from the platform. The social media giant said they suspended Cambridge Analytica and its parent group trategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) over reports that data privacy policies had been violated after data from users was not deleted. Facebook has said the violations relates to information collected in a personality app downloaded by 270,000 users, although information could have potentially been harvested from tens of millions of people.




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