The researcher sold the data to Cambridge, which was against Facebook rules, the newspapers said. Cambridge Analytica worked on Trump's 2016 campaign. A Trump campaign official said, though, that it used Republican data sources, not Cambridge Analytica, for its voter information. Cambridge Analytica in turn said it had deleted all the data and that the company supplying it had been responsible for obtaining it. Britain's data protection authority and the Massachusetts attorney general on Saturday said they were launching investigations into the use of Facebook data.

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2018 04:29 UTC