Facebook has suspended a data analytics firm working with Donald Trump's election team. The firm is alleged to have stolen information of 50 million profiles from the social media site. This information has emerged in media reports.
According to media reports, social media giant Facebook has suspended data analytics firm Cambridge Analyte and a UK-based professor Alexander Kogan. The parent company of the Analytics firm is Strategic Communication Laboratory and is a founder Christopher Wiley.
Professor Cogan of the University of Cambridge prepares a Facebook-based Personality Predictor App. According to Facebook, nearly 270,000 people downloaded 'This Is Digital Life'. Through this app, people's information was stolen. Also, personal information of Facebook friends associated with these profiles was stolen.
Although this app was designed in such a way that the users who used it did not even notice it. That is, their information was being stolen from their app without their knowledge. Facebook said that in this way when Kogan took this information to Cambridge Anilika, they violated platform policies.
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