The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal have no intention of ending anytime soon. Cambridge Analytica has not yet deleted Facebook users’ data. The company once said that they had deleted all the data of the users of the social network that they had in their possession. Although it seems that reality is not like that. And they still have the information of some 140,000 users in the state of Colorado.
Cambridge Analytica has not yet deleted Facebook users’ data
This information dates back to 2014 and would have been used to send messages with the intention of influencing the decisions of these users. The presence of this information serves to disprove the company’s statements that it had no data on its property.
Cambridge Analytica still has private data
The company had stated that they would be independently audited to demonstrate that they had no data on their property. But since Channel 4 in England, they have been researching, and it has been shown that they still have a lot of data stored. They have a database of users in Colorado primarily and also data on Oregon residents.
In addition, this information has been circulated in emails from the company and other related companies such as SCL. So these data have been exposed to many people. According to various media reports, this data was used by the Republican Party in that state to obtain information on like-minded voters.
Cambridge Analytica is currently under investigation. Therefore, such information may continue to be disclosed in the coming days. There is no doubt that much remains to be known about this scandal.