
The Man Who Saw the Dangers of Cambridge Analytica Years Ago
The Man Who Saw the Dangers of Cambridge Analytica Years Ago
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
June 20, 201822m 14s
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Show Notes
In December 2014, John Rust wrote to the head of the legal department at the University of Cambridge, where he is a professor, warning them that a storm was brewing. According to an email reviewed by WIRED, Rust informed the university that one of the school’s psychology professors, Aleksandr Kogan, was using an app he created to collect data on millions of Facebook users without their knowledge.
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