Trump-linked Cambridge Analytica suspended from Facebook amid claims it harvested 50 million profiles
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ims-harvested/
also Breitbart.
Around 270,000 Facebook users download the app but it allowed for information about hundreds of their online friends to be obtained without consent, a whistleblower claimed.
Pulling information from 50 million Facebook profiles reportedly amounts to the tech giant's biggest ever data breach - though that figure is disputed by the company.
At the heart of the reporting was Cambridge Analytica, a company owned by the billionaire Robert Mercer and once involving Steve Bannon, Mr Trump's ex-chief strategist.
a company owned by the billionaire Robert Mercer
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