Kogan Exposes “Hypocrite” Zuckerberg: “Tens Of Thousands” Of Data Harvesting Apps Out There
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Tue, 04/24/2018
Aleksandr Kogan, the computer scientist at the center of the Facebook data harvesting scandal, said Mark Zuckerberg is “totally” a hypocrite in a Monday CNBC interview. Kogan made headlines in March after the New York Times and The Guardian reported that political data firm Cambridge Analytica bought data on as many as 87 million Facebook users – harvested by Kogan’s personality app, thisismydigitallife.
The Moldovan-born researcher from Cambridge University says he’s being used as a scapegoat, and that there are “tens of thousands” of other apps do the same thing, Kogan said. “It’s certain”
“In reality, I think, the truth is we’ve got tens of thousands of over apps that did the same thing, probably on a much bigger scale than me,” Kogan told CNBC’s Power Lunch. “And they’re all out there and Facebook has no accounting for it.”
“The amazing thing is if you go and look at Facebook apps literally right now, many, if not most will have language in the terms of service that say they can transfer the data to third parties. I’m not talking about small companies, I am talking about some of the biggest companies in the world. And you can go and do this yourself right now. And Facebook is still not policing it.”
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