Facebook is refusing to explicitly confirm that this malicious third party is GSR, the company started by the Cambridge University researcher Alexsandr Kogan. Facebook is declaring war on Cambridge UniversityZuckerberg implied that Facebook had only just discovered that the university has a large psychographics research team, and he is shocked. Cambridge was also implicated in the banning of a second data broker, Cubeyou, from Facebook on Monday. There are some questions Zuckerberg can’t – or won’t – answerBy the end of the second hearing, we had learned the areas Facebook wanted to avoid. Similarly, Zuckerberg repeatedly tried to dodge the question of how much data Facebook holds about users’ browsing behaviour.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2018 18:56 UTC