incorporation of cambridge analytical is a guy called christian to road christian patrick to. who was a director and is a director now he was a director with s.c. election year and he's currently director with hanson asset management which is a. that was the excess of the hansen p o c which was set up by lord james hansen the well known industrialist who has huge connections to tobacco to big coal in the united states and so on and so forth what it was a major donor to the conservative party and also had very close connections to the vote leave campaign in the u.k. people who worked for hanson at the time went on like dominic cummings went on to run vote leave so we have all these sorts of very very direct connections to very powerful figures in the establishment and questions aren't being asked about why those establishment figures wanted to use an n.c. like him which analytical in order to manipulate public opinion this really raises the question with this massive shift to the far right that we've seen in mainstream politics in the united states and in europe wasn't really j

when you discovered the cambridge analytic that had brought it leo taint all of this information why did you inform those eighty seven million. we learned in two thousand and fifteen that cambridge analytic had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with we did take action we took down the app and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytic to delete and stop using any data that they had but you didn't notify them and. do you think that you have an ethical obligation to notify eighty seven million facebook users senator when we heard back from cambridge and a lot of code that they had told us that they weren't using the data and had deleted it we considered it a closed case and retrospect that was clearly a mistake we should have taken their word for it and we've updated our policies and how we're going to operate the company to make sure that we don't make that mistake again this is not what is facebook doing to prevent flooring actors from interfering in us elections thank you senator this is one of my top parties and twenty eight

lawmakers did he clear the misunderstandings about the cambridge analytical scandal . well first i thought he did a pretty good job keeping his cool but i don't think he cleared a lot of the misunderstandings one of the things that senators kept asking over and over again is about selling data and he had to say several times that facebook doesn't sell data to advertisers instead of salespeople to fill the users based on certain demographics or interests he also did not i think adequately addressed exactly why with such a delay between the time that facebook found out about this breach with cambridge analytic and when the public found out about it he did say that they thought they had dealt with it but even then they should have disclosed it so i wasn't happy with that aspect of it and i think the senator some of them are tech savvy but many of them kind of indicated that they really don't understand how facebook works right it's interesting you say that jennifer most of the senators who as october questions didn't seem to have a clue on how facebook worked or what the

based cambridge analytical firm it's accused of improperly accessing the information of eighty seven million users through a facebook john holl explains. well two pretty interesting bits of testimony heard from different sources of course in the facebook cambridge analytical data breach scandal first of all speaking to a parliamentary committee dr alexander kogan he's the man who produced the app that was used to harvest the data of some eighty seven million facebook users and then illegibly pass it on to cambridge analytical for use in influencing the donald trump campaign and following that swiftly it was a press conference given by cambridge analytical defending or dealing with what it described as ill informed and inaccurate speculation about a company that well alexander kogan insists as he has done before that he did nothing wrong back in two thousand and fourteen both sides he said knew precisely what was going on what he was doing no one raised any objections then he says he's being made a scapegoat by facebook that describes him as a liar and a fraud his product as a scam an

presidential election and the trump campaign cambridge analytical said the data was destroyed in twenty fifteen but there were reports that not all of it was deleted facebook then confirmed that up to eighty seven million users details may have been improperly shared with the political consultancy firm now rewind to twenty fourteen when about two hundred seventy thousand of the social networks users took an online personality survey via a third party quiz this gave access not only to their facebook information but to their friends facebook says this violated company policy any has since tightened up the rules of use or consent or let's get the views of our guest now from palo alto california joining us by skype is laurie my good who is the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org an internet safety privacy and security. ization in london jennifer privacy lecturer of digital culture and society at king's college london and in new york also by skype is jim anderson c.e.o. of social flow a distribution and monetize zation platform for publishers thank you all for joining us thank you for your time

as millions of people had their facebook data misused by the political consulting firm cambridge analytic opening remarks are now being made let's take a listen to what is being said. to larger questions about the fundamental relationship tech companies have with their. users' instant valving cambridge analytic and the compromise personal information of approximately eighty seven million american users are mostly american users is deeply disturbing to this committee the american people are concerned about how facebook protects and profits from its users data in short this facebook keep its end of the agreement with its users how should we as policymakers about you wait and respond to these events this congress need to clarify whether or not consumers own or have any real power over their online data of edge providers grown to the point that they need federal supervision you and your co-founder started a company in your dorm room that's grown to want be one of the biggest and most successful businesses in the entire world through innovation and quintessentially american entrepreneurial spi

incorporation of cambridge analytical is a guy called christian to road christian patrick to road who was a director and is a director now he was a director with jesse elections by year and he's currently director of hanson asset management which is a. that was a success of the hansen p l c which is set up by lord james hansen the well known fatter industrialist who has huge connections to tobacco to big coal in the united states and so on and so forth what it was a major donor to the conservative party and also had very close connections to the vote leave campaign in the u.k. the people that work for hanson at the time went on like dominic cummings went on to run vote leave so we have all these sorts of very very direct connections to very powerful figures in the establishment and questions aren't being asked about why those establishment figures wanted to use an n.c. like him which analytical in order to manipulate public opinion this really raises the question with this massive shift to the far right that we've seen in mainstream politics in the united states and in europe wasn't r

than first thought it does says eighty seven million people may have been exposed to the cambridge analytical privacy scandal the british use the information without users consent to help us president donald trump's twenty sixteen election campaign. it is potentially the worst privacy scandal involving any social network and facebook has admitted its role on its corporate blog in a post the social media giant revealed changes to its privacy policy it also released figures about where users affected by the cambridge analytical privacy gundel came from the us was the most affected but millions elsewhere are among those whose data may have been improperly shared after the u.s. uses in the philippines indonesia the u.k. and mexico are among the most affected. focus enough on preventing it and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well and that is foreign interference election. in addition to developers and data private. what our responsibility and i would say it was it was my view. and the stake that mark second burger will have to answer for in front of leading lawmaker

aftermath of a disputed election in honduras facebook is dealing with the fallout of the cambridge analytical story governments in washington and london are demanding answers another big chunk of the turkish news media is now in pro-government hands and which egyptian presidential candidate would you vote for the one on the left or the one on the right it's been a busy few years for the brazilian news media starting with the impeachment of a president dilma rousseff in two thousand and sixteen then covering the controversy or policies of her successor michelle tamar and then on to the corruption conviction last year of the most popular politician in the country lula da silva and now the assassination of a city councilor in rio de janeiro a woman who embodied a new kind of politics on behalf of the country's pour money on the franco's murder was a hit job clearly intended to send a message franco had campaigned against the violent policing of the favelas urban slums which are mostly populated by brazilians who share frankel's heritage african . the coverage of a story has revealed some of the

a did and telling everyone affected what we know now is that cambridge analytical improperly accessed some information about millions of facebook members by buying it from an app developer that information. this was information that people generally share publicly on their facebook pages like names and their profile picture and the pages they follow when we first contacted cambridge analytics they told us that they deleted the data about a month ago we heard new reports that suggested that wasn't true and now we're working with governments in the u.s. the u.k. and around the world to do a full audit of what they've done and to make sure they get rid of any data they may still have second to make sure no other app developers out there are misusing data we're now investigating every single left that had access to a large amount of information in the past and if we find that someone improperly use data we're going to ban them from facebook and tell everyone affected third to prevent this from ever happening again going forward we're making sure that developers can access as much informat

russian collusion and the way cambridge analytically used that facebook data to try and sway they says. well two things i would point to as we know cambridge analytical provided the information that they harvested from facebook to donald trump's presidential election campaign they also supplied the leave it campaign in the e.u. referendum in the united kingdom what we've found is that mark zuckerberg and facebook are no looking at potential russian links to cambridge analytical he was asked specifically is there the possibility that this information could be stored somewhere and russia and he said that is a possibility that they were investigating and one other big thing that we found out is that facebook cooperating with special counsel robert miller's office you'll remember that he was appointed to look into possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russians that inquiry is still ongoing mark zuckerberg said a number of people at facebook had been interviewed or certainly seem to suggest that there was a subpoena issued as far as he was aware but they are certainly cooper

aftermath of a disputed election in honduras facebook is dealing with the fallout of the cambridge analytical story governments in washington and london are demanding answers another big chunk of the turkish news media is now in pro-government hands and which egyptian presidential candidate would you vote for the one on the left or the one on the right it's been a busy few years for the brazilian news media starting with the impeachment of a president dilma rousseff in two thousand and sixteen then covering the controversy or policies of her successor michelle tamar and then on to the corruption conviction last year of the most popular politician in the country lula da silva and now the assassination of a city councilor in rio de janeiro a woman who embodied a new kind of politics on behalf of the country's pour money on the franco's murder was a hit job clearly intended to send a message franco had campaigned against the violent policing of the favelas urban slums which are mostly populated by brazilians who share frankel's heritage african . the coverage of a story has revealed some of the

the company has been portrayed in some quarters is almost some bond villain cambridge analytical is not bold and. well. we have acknowledged we're mistakes have been made and a full independent first to go shouldn't being conducted book q.c. is being conducted as we speak well mr mitchell described cambridge analytics as a fantastic world leading data science company he said the media outlets are leading the coverage against it doing so because of a political agenda ellis cose card has released dramatic video of migrants and refugees being rescued off the coast of libya they moved. around a thousand people have been picked up in the mediterranean over the past few days and whether in calm seas have made it easier for the boats to make the journey it's refugee agency says with eight thousand people have arrived by sea and it only since the start of the year. israel has abandoned plans to forcibly deport undocumented african migrants the government couldn't find a country willing to take the men thousands of mostly eritrean and sudanese men crossed into israel through egypt's sinai desert

the company has been portrayed in some quarters almost some bold villain cambridge analytical is no bold and villain well. we have acknowledged where mistakes have been made and a full independent verse to go being conducted book you see is being conducted as we speak well mr mitchell described cambridge analytic as a fantastic world leading data science company he said the media outlets leading the coverage against it were doing so because of a political agenda and other social media platform that has been under pressure to change its policies to safeguard its users has published reports you tube says it deleted eight million extreme video clips in the last three months of two thousand and seventeen as follows a promise made in december to give its users more transparency into how the online video sharing website handles abuse and decides what uploads to remove you tube has been struggling for years to police extreme content every minute about three hundred hours of video was uploaded to you tube and now uses an anti abuse algorithm that flags any content containing extremism pornograph

employee christopher wiley has said that the data that it improperly obtained that cambridge analytical improperly obtained from facebook users could be stored in russia do you agree that that's a possibility. sorry are you asking if i came originally because dad data could be stored in russia that's what he said this weekend on a sunday show. senator i don't have any specific knowledge that would suggest that but one of the steps that we need to take now is go do a full audit of all of cambridge analytical systems to understand what they're doing whether they still have any data to make sure they remove all the data if they don't we're going to take legal action against them to do so that audit we have temporarily ceded that in order to let the u.k. government complete their government investigation first because of course a government investigation takes precedence over a company doing that but we are committed to completing this full audit and getting to the bottom of what's going on here so that we we can have more answers to this ok you earlier stated publicly and here that you wou

meanwhile a former employee of cambridge analytical has been giving evidence at a u.k. parliamentary commission committee recently keiser was that the rector of program development and discussed the company's work in the run up to the bracks it referendum or insley has the story. this is where brittany kaiser was asked to testify as a woman who had worked on the political campaigns of both barack obama and donald trump in the united states working for cambridge analytical on the trump campaign she made it clear her role was to target small groups of people harvest their personal information and attempt to change their political opinions a practice she did without compunction then but had now decided it was disgraceful illiad spent too many years using technology to take advantage of people's openness and get well and i won't stand by any longer to observe this privileged abuse of power intentionally or unintentionally i want to help shed light in these dark places and to help people be more responsible in their actions cambridge analytical then moved in on the leave dot

say is in the wake of the cambridge analytical scandal news articles and commentators have focused on what facebook knows about us a lot it turns out it collects data from our posts our likes or photos things we type and delete without posting the things we do while not on facebook in even when we're offline it buys data about us from others and it can infer even more our sexual orientation political beliefs relationship status drug use and other personality traits even if we didn't take the personality test that cambridge and let it be developed so you know these surveillance capitalist corporations have been collecting a lot of data on us we have mostly provided for free because we're getting a free service of course many especially in the cypherpunk community have warned that there's no such thing as free lunch if you're giving them your data for free of course you are the product also calling a crocodile's surveillance capitalists right. there are quiet in the water and waiting and waiting and waiting and then they strike so all the algorithms are employed in these corporate giann

based cambridge analytical firm it's accused of improperly accessing the information of eighty seven million users through facebook john explains. well two pretty interesting bits of testimony heard from different sources of course in the facebook cambridge analytical data breach scandal first of all speaking to a parliamentary committee dr alexander kogan he's the man who produced the app that was used to harvest the data of some eighty seven million facebook users and then illegibly pass it on to cambridge analytical for use in influencing the donald trump campaign and following that swiftly it was a press conference given by cambridge analytical defending or dealing with what it described as ill informed and inaccurate speculation about a company that well alexander kogan insists as he has done before that he did nothing wrong back in two thousand and fourteen both sides he said knew precisely what was going on what he was doing no one raised any objections then he says he's being made a scapegoat by facebook that describes him as a liar and a fraud his product as a scam and cambr

or cambridge analytics researchers have destroyed them. i teach law school and we teach students how to enforce these kinds of promises. it's basically just a fun the broad access to consumer data. i could go on, but what i would like to hear from facebook is what are we going to do to control this? the famous line was this is dÉÀa vu all over again. we solve these problems in 2011 and the dissent to create was designed to avoid the problem so one of the things i like to see is facebook come before the senate and come in with a list of things that are going to control the problem. there's lots of other problems, but in terms of providing minimal safeguards those are some of the things i want to see facebook talk about. now that you bring about the dissent victory coming to seem to indicate earlier you believe that it had been violated so i would like to hear first in light of the audience a little bit more about wha what that wad what that was about than what you'd expect if i wanted to see in regards to death now. >> again this goes back

fifty million fifty million users of facebook that had their information handed over to cambridge analytic now we later heard that it was eighty seven million people who had their facebook profiles handed over to this research firm and that the majority of them were in the united states now the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of a vote potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanati

media network revealed that eighty seven million profiles may have been exposed in the cambridge analytic got data grab facing the worst crisis and its history facebook now says it will restrict the data that other parties can use. it is potentially the worst privacy scandal involving any social network and facebook has admitted its role on its corporate blog in a post the social media giant reveal changes to its privacy policy it also released figures about where users affected by the cambridge analytical privacies gundel came from the us was the most affected but millions elsewhere those whose data may have been improperly shared after the u.s. uses in the philippines indonesia the u.k. and mexico are among the most affected we can focus enough on preventing it and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well and that goes for. foreign interference election beach in addition to developers and data privacy . we're going to take a broad enough view of what our responsibilities and i was this huge mistake it was it was my mate. and this date that marks second birth

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shed light in the start places and to help people be more responsible in their actions cambridge analytical then moved in on the leave dot edu campaign during the breaks at referendum the company she said told our own banks the millionaire backer of leave so that they could do for the bricks and camp what they had done for donald trump in the end she said believe campaign haven't taken their services but in a major allegation she claims that mr banks had taken their idea and harvested lists of his own commercial customers and targeted them for political messaging a practice is illegal in britain mr banks denies the claim when i did visit the elgin insurance and levy you had quarters which was the same building with the same . is that when a senior data scientist and myself spent time with their phone bank i was told by the people using the individuals that they were calling out of the insurance database it would clearly be wrong for people's personal data maybe help our insurance company to be used in a political campaign without their consent and so on the question is was consent sought or

gathered all the data but the cambridge analytic is getting a lot of the brunt of the i are and the outrage in the media of course but of if there's one cambridge analytic if there's one cockroach you know there's thousands of other companies also collecting the same data and there's a harvard business queen the phrase surveillance cathles and that's what we now live in a surveillance capitalism but back to what they. say is in the wake of the cambridge analytical scandal news articles and commentators have focused on what facebook knows about us a lot it turns out it collects data from our posts our likes or photos things we type and delete without posting the things we do while not on facebook and even when we're offline it buys data about us from others and it can infer even more our sexual orientation political beliefs relationship status drug use and other personality traits even if we didn't take the personality test that cambridge and let it be developed so you know these surveillance capitalist corporations have been collecting a lot of data that we have mostly provided for

shannon: and audited to prevent abuse. >> that is how it got to cambridge analytical.ill be an independent audit on these apps to determine if information is used improperly. if it is found to be used improperly they will bend them and require the information to be deleted and notify everybody who's -- >> facebook didn't provided directed data to cambridge analytical. would this be happening if cambridge analytical were connected to a democratic campaign? there has been discussion that pres. obama benefited from use of facebook. he said the person who worked in his campaign that made those claims didn't tell the truth. >> i don't think these congressional proceedings are over. i think there will be additional companies and ceos coming in and not beyond the realm of possibility to ask cambridge analytical questions about this and what happens. shannon: pres. obama's administration were praised for the use of social media and facebook and incorporated into the campaigns and getting people to the polls and the exact opposite going on with donald trump. >> it will be a com

if we are given more time, we can produce highly analytical product. then your other question was about additional staff or -- >> how would it impact the turn p arou around time? >> i think what i am trying to do is bring on staff so that the senior analysts and attorneys have more time to focus on the analytical work. the highly analytical sophisticated work that at least they don't feel they have enough time to do because they're answering a lot of requests so some of the folks are bringing on board especially in last year's appropriation fy 2018 were more junior folks, three to five years ates would come in and hopefully unload the senior analysts so that they can do the highly analytical work for congress. >> we have junior level, and the others coming in on that. >> i appreciate that. >> since freshmen orientation before i everyone knew what c.r.s stood for, you guys are very helpful. >> you are so kind. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> if you want to stay at the table. >> yeah. >> chairman, i must say on a recent visit to crs, i noted

company's admitted that the scale of a personal data breach involving the research firm cambridge analytic was far larger than previously estimated let's get across is go to new york caleb maupin is there a couple of twists and turns in this scandal big news isn't it take us through it. well we now have facebook admitting that most of its two billion users probably had their information revealed in an unauthorized manner now when the new york times first broke the story in mid march we heard that it was fifty million fifty million users of facebook that had their information handed over to cambridge analytic now we later heard that it was eighty seven million people who had their facebook profiles handed over to this research firm and that the majority of them were in the united states now the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essentially to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would

a former employee of cambridge analytic has been testifying about its role in the braggs it vote the company is under scrutiny for harvesting personal data from millions of facebook users but he kaiser has told a u.k. parliamentary committee that a key backer of the leave campaign used information for political purposes on slieve reports as well personally kaiser was asked to testify as a woman who had worked on the political campaigns of both barack obama and donald trump in the united states working for cambridge analytical on the trump campaign she made it clear her role was to target small groups of people harvest their personal information and attempt to change their political opinions a practice she did without compunction then but had now decided it was disgraceful illiad spent too many years using technology to take advantage of people's openness and get well and i won't stand by any longer to observe this privileged abuse of power intentionally or unintentionally i want to help shed light in the stark places and to help people be more responsible in their actions cambridge a

on their terms and cambridge analytical said that they deleted the data. then a former employee of cambridge analytical, he said i have that data. and cambridge sued them because because he had data, and they had to sue him demanding that he delete the data. >> this is a mistake that mark zuckerberg said and you could have all the laws in place and those mistakes would occur. i think that the cambridge analytical story has taken on a little more life of its own because it's politically charged. because people thought we have donald trump on yet another snag and i think now people are learning the facts, that donald trump did not use cambridge analytical data, therefore he did not use the facebook data that mr. kogan took from facebook and now a lot of the air is coming out of this controversy. and then, of course, people learned, well, guess what? the obama campaign four years ago got similar access to friend data and sent political messages to the people who signed up to their friends. so, where does that leave us? i think cambridge analytical is a bit of

one side can reach analytical says he wasn't upfront about how the data was collected as a say in the middle east alexander kogan will find out more about him today he insists he did nothing wrong and just briefly jonah i mean as you say he's been implicated in providing the means for the scandal so is what he did illegal i think that's an incredibly difficult question to answer this is a largely unregulated space of course the digital world that is one of the crucial issues under examination now there are very few rules governing what facebook does with data and of course facebook has existed from the beginning of obvious exhibit existence accumulating aggregating data using it for advertising models and so on and cambridge analytic what it was doing in gathering data and then targeting political ads that particular subsets of voters based on their likes and dislikes is the sort of thing that political parties have been doing since the beginning of democracy it's a question of where these two things intersect and whether that data was improperly used in other words not with the knowl

but facebook is now saying cambridge analytical is not alone in trying to mine private data and almost all of the networks two billion accounts may have been compromised internet law and media experts told us there is a lack of awareness about how people's data is being used. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of the fans very thirty million a late a million i think is the principle behind the old story about what about the use of internet robots as we call them books. in order to meddle with the us elections now still stories seem now a little bit out of a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being you're doing election is the this story was about influencing election but by body. rather than accessing uses they've done locally this is a company that roots so rapidly now the people who are managing facebook lost control of their cre

from different sources and collecting it under one platform where you can run it through advanced analytic programs making it easier for the customers to better harness their vast treasure troves of data this business is on fire when the company reported it delivered 36% revenue growth and even better management gave bullish guidance it's given us a herely 60% gain since we last spoke to the ceo last year. can they keep climbing let's take a closer look with mike tuchen to get a sense of what his company is doing. good to see you. >> thank you >> have a seat >> now, we have a lot of cloud companies and have a lot of companies say they have data analytics. from the quarter you just had you were pulling away from the competition. what are you doing right that everyone is excited about. >> think about what talend does is being the first mile in helping companies use data right, a lot of companies focus on the last mile about analytics. the first mile is what you talked about, pulling the data together, cleaning it up and making it right. we do that and we do that for all the new scenarios tha