election. but cam bren analytical and other companies like that still working on harvesting vast amounts of data about voters, about individuals, and then trying to use that data to target ads and information to us. in fact, cambridge has a contract with the state department. so this is an issue in this case an investigation in the times tomorrow about this particular use of facebook data in ways that the company says was improper. facebook has been criticized very heavily for not doing more to stop people on facebook from being manipulated during the election, to say the least with what we ve learned of russia involvement on social media. did it surprise that they came out saying we are punishing cambridge? yes, another black eye on facebook. starts with fake news, there was talk about how facebook helps fake news spread during the campaign. then it was the russian propaganda you mentioned.
personality quiz about 2250,000 people took. data used by the professor then handed off to cam bren analytical and used to create profiles of voters. what s remarkable is you start with 270,000 people and connect all their friends, and before you know it you have 50 million facebook information. that s what s so remarkable to use this quiz to grab the data. cam bren sa cambridge says we didn t use it to help the trump campaign. but u.k. says he has regrets how he worked with cam bren. had is what he said to the guardian. he said this is insane, psychological profiles of 230 million, now they want to get contracts and work with the pentagon. it s like nixon on steroids. this is why this matters now. the election is long over, 2016