The researcher who collected the data was not authorized to pass it on to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica itself may have broken U.S. election laws, if British individuals without U.S. green cards worked on any U.S. election campaigns. In case all this isn’t persuasive, here is a fifth, slightly less scientific reason to doubt Cambridge Analytica’s success. Feel free to worry anyway — just not about Cambridge Analytica’s boastingOf course there is still plenty to worry about. But Cambridge Analytica’s specific attempts at psychographic profiling do not need to rank highly on this already crowded list of concerns.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2018 18:57 UTC