An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, appears to have left sensitive voter

An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, appears to have left sensitive voter targeting tools online for nearly a year

Natasha Bertrand at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-data-russia-cambridge-analytica-2017-10

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An intern at the data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica left online for nearly a year what appears to be programming instructions for the voter targeting tools the company used around the time of the election, raising questions about who could have accessed the tools and to what end.

Social media analyst and data scientist Jonathan Albright discovered the election data processing scripts — or programming instructions — on what he said was the intern's personal GitHub account. GitHub, a "Facebook for programmers," is an internet hosting service mostly used for code.

A LinkedIn account that appears to belong to the intern identified by Albright lists him as a "Data Science Intern" for Cambridge Analytica between March and June of 2016.

A spokesman for Cambridge Analytica, which mined and analyzed voter data for the Trump campaign last year, told Business Insider after this article's publication that "interns often carry out small learning exercises as part of their internship."

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