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The closure is the election consultancy firm Cambridge Analyst, located in the center of the data scandal in Facebook. During the United States presidential election against the organization, there is a complaint against Trump for handing over Facebook data.

The UK-based firm had been under pressure since March last year after the 'Facebook scandal' was known. In addition to the strong criticism around the world, several countries have begun investigations against Cambridge analytics. In view of this, authorities closed its activities on Wednesday and declared bankruptcy in the United States and the United States.

Cambridge Analystica said, after the March of last year, their customers have ended. Running a business will not be fruitful.

Facebook was accused of collecting immorally personal information from the company. There is no customer to criticize all around. According to a statement of the company, they will not run the business. However, the company has denied accusations of unofficial collection of Facebook data.

Cambridge analysts argue with the collection of Facebook data, they have taken information from Facebook for legal obligations. Their business practices were in the political and commercial areas of the online advertising system.

The debate started in the media of the United Kingdom and the United States. According to the report published in The New York Times, Cambridge Institute of Information Analysis, which analyzed the US citizens' vote in 2016, was influenced by the US presidential election. In this case, information obtained from Facebook's billions of user profiles was used.

Facebook has allowed the use of DiseaseEducationalLife in the application made by Alexander Kogan, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge. The professor gets the opportunity to get information from users. The app mainly runs a personality test. But Facebook users who used to download this app also allowed Alexander Cogan to take their own information. The professor of psychology knew about the location of users, their friends, and the posts they would like to 'like'.

At that time, the program was approved even in the Facebook policy. Users provided that information to Cone Cambridge Analyst. He did this by breaking the Facebook policy. More than five million Facebook users are unaffected in this way. At that time, Cambridge analyst was trying to innovate technology that could affect voters. But the Facebook authorities claimed that they had asked Cambridge Analytics to delete all those information in 2015.

In a statement on Wednesday, Facebook said that the closure of Cambridge Analytics was not what it meant to stop, the investigation was not stopped. They will continue the investigation to know everything about this incident.

According to the scandal in Cambridge, about 81 million people have been misused by Facebook users. There has been a storm of criticism about Facebook's privacy in this incident.

There is a demand for inquiry around Facebook and Cambridge Analytics around the world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in the US Congress Immediately after the incident, Cambridge analyst dismissed their executive Alexander Nix. He revealed to secret journalists the secret strategy of bribing politicians, using sex workers, and the secret strategy of Cambridge Analyst. After that the information came to the public. These allegations were denied by Cambridge Analysts. thanks all #steemit members....

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