As many as a million British Facebook users may have had their data harvested because they were connected to US users targeted in data passed to Cambridge Analytica, Schroepfer said. But there was no evidence of Cambridge Analytica managing referendum-related ads or pages, Schroepfer said, or spending money on the campaigns. Cambridge Analytica said, in a tweet, that this was “hardly surprising: Cambridge Analytica didn't work on the referendum”. Cambridge Analytica has said it pitched to the Leave.EU campaign group for work, but that no work was undertaken. Facebook received a certification that Cambridge Analytica deleted the data at the centre of the scandal when requested, Schroepfer said.

Source: The Star April 27, 2018 04:41 UTC