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The FTC approved final settlement agreements (see here and here) with the former CEO of Cambridge
Analytica, LLC ("Cambridge Analytica") and an app
developer for using deceptive business practices to collect
personal information from Facebook users.
As previously
covered, app developer Aleksandr Kogan and former Cambridge
Analytica CEO Alexander Nix were charged with using misleading
tactics to procure "tens of millions" of Facebook
users' personal information. The information was collected
through the "GSRApp" application on Facebook commonly
known as "thisisyourdigitallife." While Cambridge
Analytica ostensibly obtained permission from users to harvest
their data, the FTC concluded that the company's methods for
doing so were "false and deceptive."
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