{"id":4202,"date":"2018-04-07T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=3f61c8569f6cc7e28e3a8a28814b00a8"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:14:47","slug":"facebook-suspends-canadian-firm-amid-data-mining-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/07\/facebook-suspends-canadian-firm-amid-data-mining-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook suspends Canadian firm amid data mining scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MENLO PARK, Calif. &#8212; Facebook says it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining company accused of obtaining data from up to 87 million Facebook users to sway elections.<\/p>\n<p>Menlo Park, California-based Facebook says in a statement issued Saturday that AggregateIQ may have improperly received data from Facebook users. AggregateIQ will lose all Facebook access.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge Analytica was employed by Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign. It says it received data from 30 million users but never used it in the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Whistleblowers say AggregateIQ worked on the campaign for Great Britain to exit the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>AggregateIQ says on its website it isn&#8217;t part of Cambridge Analytica or parent firm SCL. It says it didn&#8217;t have access to Facebook data from Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MENLO PARK, Calif. &mdash; Facebook says it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining company accused of obtaining data from up to 87 million Facebook users to sway elections. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook says in a statement issued Saturday that AggregateIQ may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}