Episode 1028 • • 2:46:16 - 2:51:18
1028: Roscoe!
60 Minutes Interview with Cambridge Analytica's Aleksandr Kogan
CBS's 60 Minutes interviewed Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher who collected Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica. Kogan explained that his app used a standard Facebook feature to access the data of tens of millions of users' friends without their explicit consent. He noted that tens of thousands of developers used this same "feature" for years, and that Facebook was fully aware of the capability.