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.
get more americans data off of facebook. the times reviews the agenda of a 2014 meeting. where the company explained the company wanted to use the voter contact list to direct people toward the facebook app. that would be the facebook app that cambridge analytica used to rip off personal data from 50 million americans. who never consented to their facebook stuff being used in that way. the associated press reports that special counsel robert mueller is scrutinizing cambridge analytica. and connection to the donald trump campaign. so, this is the third donald trump national security adviser. whatever you thought of michael flynn and hr mcmaster. now that he s out, you should know the new guy is going to start that job with potential entanglement in two different fbi inquiries. one into the nra. and whether the nra was a
whistle blower. who says the firm used illicitly acquired facebook data from tens of millions americans to run the core business of the operation. in the case of john bolton s super pac? cambridge analytica reportedly used that american facebook data to make ads for candidates who bolton supported. but also appear to have used bolton s pac as a way to try to get more americans data off of facebook. the times reviews the agenda of a 2014 meeting. where the company explained the company wanted to use the voter contact list to direct people toward the facebook app. that would be the facebook app that cambridge analytica used to rip off personal data from 50 million americans. who never consented to their facebook stuff being used in that way. the associated press reports that special counsel robert mueller is scrutinizing cambridge analytica. and connection to the donald trump campaign. so, this is the third donald trump national security adviser. whatever you thought of michael
and this was this data that became the foundation of the company because this is what we used to build the algorithms that then were you know, that actually became the basis of the company itself. so the question that i would have is, well, what happens to the foundation of your company, you know, if you didn t indeed use it on the trump campaign? what were you using, then? because that was the basis of your company, right? that s how your company started? that was the foundation of your company. there was no data before that point. so we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this data off of facebook and then combining it with all the consumer data sets and voter data sets. at the behest of steve bannon? yeah, because, you know, he wanted to the company got funded in the spring of 2014, and he wanted to be able to have, you know, a functioning program in time for the midterms. so, you know, we had sort of
that s how the company started. yeah. there was no data before that point. so we went from no data to harvesting all of this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this consumer data sets at the behest of steve ba bannon? yeah. the company got funded in the spring of 2014 and he wanted to be able to have functioning program in time for the mid terms. so we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks saying where is the data? where is the algorithms and our information weapons? and that s where alex ander kogan came along from cambridge who offered the use of this app that had special permissions granted by facebook to pull data not only from the app user but from all of the friends of that user and that meant that for one user we re collecting 200, 300