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Twitter Data Leak: Micro-Blogging Platform Sold Data To Cambridge Analytica Researcher

Post Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica incident, reports regarding a Twitter data leak have surfaced everywhere and has been confirmed to be true. The microblogging platform sold data access to Global Science Research (GSR), owned by Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan was the Cambridge University academic who created a personality quiz on social networking site Facebook. He used to it gain access to information later used by Cambridge Analytica. Information regarding millions of Facebook users was obtained. The information was provided to a political consulting firm, SCL Group. It was provided without any consent from users.

Twitter Data Leak: Micro-Blogging Platform Sold Data To Cambridge Analytica Researcher