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FTC v. Cambridge Analytica, LLC

Data privacy & misuse
Regulatory action
Action 2019
AI system / company
Cambridge Analytica (data harvested from Facebook)
Jurisdiction
United States (federal)
Court / regulator
Federal Trade Commission (administrative)
Status
Regulatory action

What happened

The FTC filed an administrative complaint against Cambridge Analytica and settled with its former CEO and an app developer over the deceptive harvesting of personal information from tens of millions of Facebook users via a personality-quiz app, which was used for voter profiling. The action was part of the FTC’s broader response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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