The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter

RickMycroft March 30, 2018, 2:05am 12

All these shadowy cybercrud companies are in bed together, as was shown in the 2011 HBGary email leaks.

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