from facebook. they re pushing back. kogan is fired up about this, as one might imagine he would be. you ve spoken with facebook. we heard from facebook. their vice president of product partnerships had this to say. in october 2015, kogan had a brief consulting contract with facebook. they re referring to the time he was spending on the campus. at no point during the two years was facebook aware of kogan s activities with cambridge analytica. it was not until 2015, in december, facebook says, that we first learned that kogan had broken facebook s terms of service by selling to cambridge analytica, the facebook information that was collected in the app he built. then, you also have the response from cambridge analytica, as well. they re saying, dr. kogan made contractual commitments to cambridge analytica that gsr was responsible for compliance with data protection ledgelatigislatd we took these assurances in good faith. everybody is blaming everybody else. basically. we re seei
facebook was obviously aware? of course. it was a feature not a bug. at the time i thought we were doing everything that was correct. i was acting, honestly, quite naively. facebook says that you lied to them. that s frustrating to hear, to be honest. if i had any inkling that what we were going to do was going to destroy my relationship with facebook i would have never done it. if i had any inkling that i was going to cause people to be upset i would have never done it. aled of kogan s interview with 60 minutes facebook acknowledged he was a paid consultant for their company writing in part, quote, in october of 2015 kogan had a brief consulting contract with facebook. at no point during these two years was facebook aware of kogan s activities with cambridge analytica. it was not until december of 2015 we first learned kogan had broken terms of service by selling to cambridge analytica
survey where they were paid and they filled out the survey about the their personality then click it had log in button and then facebook sent us their data. so to pull back, there are thousand or tens of thousands of people who built apps to pull data off of facebook, correct? yeah, absolutely. so it s a very common practice. facebook said you had a brief consulting contract with them, that they weren t aware of your work and that you had broken their terms of service but in fact if a user was looking at the agreement you had with facebook users, it discloses that you planned or had the option of using the information they gave you for commercial purposes, correct? absolutely. facebook saying they had a brief consulting contract completely avoids the fact that i also was working closely with them for years and years on research.
mike barnicle. so the two companies at the center of the scandal issued the following statements. in october of 2015, kogan had a brief consulting contract with facebook. at no point during these two years was facebook aware of kogan s activities with cambridge analytica. it was not until december of 2015 that we first learned kogan had broken facebook s terms of service by selling to cambridge analytica facebook information collected via an app he built. claij cambridge analytica said this. dr. cogan made contractual commitments to cambridge analytica that gsr was responsible for compliance with data protection legislation and we took these assurances in good faith. cambridge analytica s research showed that the personality types licensed by gsr kogan underperformed to more traditional ways of grouping people by demographics.