London: Cambridge Analytica or CA, the data consultancy firm at the heart of a fake news investigation in the UK, has said that all its activities around the world, including in India, will be investigated and reported on.
A spokesperson for the company on Tuesday said that while CA was focussed purely on the US market, its global arm, SCL Elections, handled other regions.
"All the national issues and national associations are part and parcel of the independent investigation. Rest assured, India, Kenya, Nigeria, all the other countries that SCL has been working in historically, will be investigated and reported on as part of the independent investigation," he told reporters during a press conference in London today.
Kogan's company, Global Science Research or GSR, developed a Facebook app that reportedly collected data from people who signed up to use the app as well as information from their Facebook friends, without the explicit approval of all involved.
DCMS Committee chair Damian Collins said that Nix had told the committee in February that CA never received data from Kogan's company GSR, which did not have "much credibility any more given his own testimony today.
In a post on Twitter later, the 28-year-old also named the Janata Dal (United) as a client during the 2010 Bihar elections and revealed some caste surveys carried out in Uttar Pradesh by SCL India the parent company of CA.
His message included documents which indicate that SCL India boasted a database of "over 600 districts and 7 lakh villages, which is constantly being updated". Its reach in India is said to include a head office in Ghaziabad, with nine regional offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cuttack, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Patna and Pune.
A spokesperson for the company on Tuesday said that while CA was focussed purely on the US market, its global arm, SCL Elections, handled other regions.
"All the national issues and national associations are part and parcel of the independent investigation. Rest assured, India, Kenya, Nigeria, all the other countries that SCL has been working in historically, will be investigated and reported on as part of the independent investigation," he told reporters during a press conference in London today.
Kogan's company, Global Science Research or GSR, developed a Facebook app that reportedly collected data from people who signed up to use the app as well as information from their Facebook friends, without the explicit approval of all involved.
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DCMS Committee chair Damian Collins said that Nix had told the committee in February that CA never received data from Kogan's company GSR, which did not have "much credibility any more given his own testimony today.
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In a post on Twitter later, the 28-year-old also named the Janata Dal (United) as a client during the 2010 Bihar elections and revealed some caste surveys carried out in Uttar Pradesh by SCL India the parent company of CA.
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His message included documents which indicate that SCL India boasted a database of "over 600 districts and 7 lakh villages, which is constantly being updated". Its reach in India is said to include a head office in Ghaziabad, with nine regional offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cuttack, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Patna and Pune.
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