The center declined to work with Cambridge Analytica, but Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American psychology professor at the university, was willing. Dr. Kogan built his own app and in June 2014 began harvesting data for Cambridge Analytica. Dr. Kogan declined to provide The Times with details of what had happened, citing nondisclosure agreements with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica officials, after denying that they had obtained or used Facebook data, changed their story last week. “Massachusetts residents deserve answers immediately from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica,” she said in a Twitter post.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 19:36 UTC