Facebook Hires Forensics Firm To Audit Trump Campaign Data Company
Facebook just announced they are doing a comprehensive audit of Cambridge Analytica.
In a new post to their company blog Facebook announced Monday that it has hired a forensics firm to audit Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Cambridge Analytica has come under fire for improper use of up to 50 million Facebook user’s data.
In a statement, Facebook announced “We have hired a digital forensics firm, Stroz Friedberg, to conduct a comprehensive audit of Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica has agreed to comply and afford the firm complete access to their servers and systems. We have approached the other parties involved — Christopher Wylie and Aleksandr Kogan — and asked them to submit to an audit as well. Mr. Kogan has given his verbal agreement to do so. Mr. Wylie thus far has declined.”
“This is part of a comprehensive internal and external review that we are conducting to determine the accuracy of the claims that the Facebook data in question still exists. This is data Cambridge Analytica, SCL, Mr. Wylie, and Mr. Kogan certified to Facebook had been destroyed. If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook’s policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,” Facebook went on to say.
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