Facebook has said little about Kogan besides asserting that he lied when he claimed his data-gathering would be used only for academic research. As part of the research, which was separate from Kogan’s work for Cambridge Analytica, Facebook provided Kogan with data on 57 billion Facebook friendships, according to the paper. Can you imagine the possibilities then?” Kogan wrote to Cambridge Analytica data scientists in a February 2014 email. Facebook suspended Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Wylie last week, claiming they had illegitimately shared the data. “I did not offer any data to share, nor do I possess any medical data to share,” Kawachi said.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2018 03:04 UTC