The creator of the “This is your digital life” app involved in the Cambridge Analytica revelations called Facebook’s attempt to blame him for the incident “PR spin,” USA Today reports. Aleksandr Kogan said his data-collection efforts were similar to those done by other developers and that, when Facebook approached him to delete the information he collected, he did so without retaining any copies. “Tens of thousands of companies have collected this data,” Kogan said. “The reality is probably every user, or nearly every user, has been collected many, many times by many companies, and Facebook has no accounting for where that data is today.”
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