Cambridge Analytica, a data-analysis firm that worked for US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, reportedly obtained the data of 50 million people in the US without authorisation. Photo: AP
Trump election consultants harvested data from 50 million Facebook users ‘to target people’s demons’
The more than 50 million profiles represented about a third of active North American Facebook users, and nearly a quarter of potential US voters in 2014
Cambridge Analytica, a data-analysis firm that worked for US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, reportedly obtained the data of 50 million people in the US without authorisation. Photo: AP