Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Data could have come from more than 87 million users, be stored i
Source: CNN
CNN)Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the data the firm gathered from Facebook could have come from more than 87 million users and could be stored in Russia.
The number of Facebook users whose personal information was accessed by Cambridge Analytica "could be higher, absolutely," than the 87 million users acknowledged by Facebook, Wylie told NBC's Chuck Todd during a "Meet the Press" segment airing Sunday.
The former Cambridge Analytica employee said that "a lot of people" had access to the data and referenced a "genuine risk" that the harvested data could be stored in Russia.
"It could be stored in various parts of the world, including Russia, given the fact that the professor who was managing the data harvesting process was going back and forth between the UK and to Russia," Wylie said.
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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Data could have come from more than 87 million users, be stored in Russia
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)This is why we can't have nice things anymore....
bitterross
(4,066 posts)The whole web accidentally turned into that in the early days. People wouldn't pay for subscriptions to services to support the sites so they had to find some way to monetize it. Boom - we'll sell advertising and to do that they started collecting demographics.
Now, just about the whole web is nothing more than a big marketing engine. AND, we voluntarily submit to it, sign up our mobile phones to track us and buy in-home devices like Alexa and Google Home to monitor our every word.
We consumers own a large part of this issue.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)But it was all centered around identity theft, more or less. The theft of an entire superpower never entered my mind. I guess I lack imagination...and probably criminal genius, as well.
No matter how heinous the plan, and how devastating the result, I have to admit that the plan has a certain spark of genius to it. Rather like Lex Luthor.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)..as Mueller got closer to Cambridge A?
That's probably where they transferred & moved their stored Cambridge data.
That precious data is their ticket to ruling the world.