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Undated: Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm which combined data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication during the electoral processes.[5][6] It was started in 2013 as an offshoot of the SCL Group.[7] The company closed operations in 2018, although related firms continued in existence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
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March 30: Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested by Trump Campaign Affiliate

... Cambridge Analytica ... was paid millions of dollars by Donald Trump’s campaign. Much of the money came from committees funded by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who reportedly has a large stake in Cambridge Analytica. For a time, one of Cambridge Analytica’s officers was Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s senior adviser. Months after Bannon claimed to have severed ties with the company, checks from the Trump campaign for Cambridge Analytica’s services continued to show up at one of Bannon’s addresses in Los Angeles.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/facebook-failed-to-protect-30-million-users-from-having-their-data-harvested-by-trump-campaign-affiliate/

June 14: Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped launch the campaign of President Donald Trump to victory has threatened to sue a British newspaper over an investigative series into the alleged role it played in the Brexit campaign, in which British citizens voted to leave the European Union.

The series, published between February and May 2017, alleges that the two separate Brexit campaigns, Vote Leave and Leave.EU violated British election finance laws by failing to report links between the data firms they hired, Aggregate IQ and Cambridge Analytica
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/14/data-firm-helped-trump-sues-the-guardian-brexit-cambridge-analytica/

October 11: Russia Probe Now Investigating Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s ‘Psychographic’ Data Gurus

A data firm backed by some of Donald Trump’s closest allies is now facing scrutiny as part of an investigation into possible collusion between the president’s team and Russian operatives ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-probe-now-investigating-cambridge-analytica-trumps-psychographic-data-gurus

October 27: A Trump campaign official insists to CNN that they hired Cambridge Analytica in order to bring on board some key staff who were known to be talented in the area of GOP data [and] only used the Republican National Committee's voter data files ... the source said they never used Cambridge Analytica's data base [supposedly not to create a searchable data base for Hillary Clinton emails, as had been suggested].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/rebekah-mercer-cambridge-analytica-clinton-emails/index.html

October 27: Cambridge Analytica was part of the Trump campaign's three-pronged data operation, which was led by digital strategist Brad Parscale and overseen by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Parscale and employees from his firm, Giles-Parscale, incorporated some staffers from Cambridge Analytica into their data operation. They also worked with teams from data companies that were partnered with the Republican National Committee.

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who is closely affiliated with the Mercers [Trump supporters and donors], served as Cambridge Analytica's vice president and sat on its board, according to The New York Times. A Bannon spokesman told the Times he stepped down from the post before joining the Trump campaign ...Ale Cambridge Analytica's CEO is Alexander Nix.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/rebekah-mercer-cambridge-analytica-clinton-emails/index.html
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February 16: Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice official who brought opposition research on Donald Trump to the FBI in 2016, did not disclose that the company that produced it at the Democratic National Committee’s behest was paying his wife, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.

Ohr also did not obtain a conflict of interest waiver from his superiors at the Justice Department, according to the documents.

The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his post as associate deputy attorney general after the relationship between the company, Fusion GPS, and his wife emerged and after Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting with Ohr.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/02/16/doj-official-bruce-ohr-hid-wifes-fusion-gps-payments-from-ethics-officials/

March 18: Cambridge Analytica, a data vendor for the Trump campaign, was phased out during the general election,
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-phased-out-use-of-cambridge-analytica-data-before-election/


March 20:
Trump campaign sprints away from Cambridge Analytica

As the scandal around the data analytics firm intensifies, the Trump camp dramatically downplays its ties to the company.
https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign-tries-to-distance-itself-from-scandal-ridden/

March 20: Cambridge Analytica boasted that it ran the entire Trump campaign

It’s unclear how much influence Cambridge Analytica, a firm that consulted for the Trump campaign,
had on the 2016 presidential election, but, in a private sales pitch, the firm took all the credit. It also hinted at campaign machinations that are illegal under US law.
https://qz.com/1233832/cambridge-analytica-boasted-that-it-ran-the-entire-trump-campaign/

March 30: Government watchdog groups on Thursday called for an investigation into whether President Trump’s campaign and a super PAC controlled by his new national security adviser conspired with an embattled political data firm to violate elections laws.

In complaints filed Thursday with the Justice Department, the watchdog groups allege that the firm, Cambridge Analytica, violated a law barring foreign nationals from participating in U.S. elections. And they accuse the Trump campaign and John Bolton Super PAC of knowing their actions were improper when they worked with the firm.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cambridge-analyticas-work-for-trump-campaign-bolton-pac-prompt-complaints-to-doj/2018/03/29/0eb11424-3368-11e8-94fa-32d48460b955_story.html?utm_term=.8a6211c5607d

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April 2: New Trump White House aide has Cambridge Analytica ties

Kirsten Fontenrose joined the Trump White House in March as the NSC senior director for Gulf Affairs. There is no indication that Fontenrose, who also has worked for the State Department and U.S. military, was involved in Cambridge’s election effort or any other activities that have come under scrutiny by investigators.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/02/kirsten-fontenrose-trump-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-493245

April 2: Cambridge Analytica and a Moral Reckoning in Silicon Valley

The latest Trump-adjacent scandal will have consequences far outside the White House.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/cambridge-analytica-and-a-moral-reckoning-in-silicon-valley

April 4: Facebook says the number of users affected by Cambridge Analytica data leak is 87 million
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/facebook-updates-the-number-of-users-impacted-by-cambridge-analytica-leak-to-87-million-.html

April 8: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Data could have come from more than 87 million users, be stored in Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/08/politics/cambridge-analytica-data-millions/index.html

April 8: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says both Congress and Mueller have asked to talk to him about the Facebook scandal and Trump
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-ex-cambridge-analytica-employee-to-cooperate-with-doj-probe-2018-4

April 17: CEO of Cambridge Analytica parent company compared Trump campaign to Hitler
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/383488-ceo-of-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-compared-trump-campaign-to

April 18: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and data mining: What you need to know ... The world's biggest social network is at the center of an international scandal involving voter data, the 2016 US presidential election and Brexit/

Consultants working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign exploited the personal Facebook data of millions
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-mining-and-trump-what-you-need-to-know/

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May  2: Trump-connected data firm Cambridge Analytica shuts down all operations in the wake of Facebook scandal
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-linked-data-firm-cambridge-analytica-shuts-article-1.3967946

May 6: Leaked emails reveal that when Cambridge Analytica told Facebook almost a year before the election that it had deleted data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users, it stopped short of agreeing to also erase derivatives of the data.

Derivatives of data, which can include predictive models, or clusters of populations in psychological groupings, can be highly valuable to companies involved in micro-targeting advertisements to voters. Data scientists say such models and analysis are often more valuable than underlying raw data.

Donald Trump hired Cambridge Analytica after he became the Republican nominee months later and, according to two former employees, the company retained models and aggregated versions of Facebook data throughout the presidential campaign and beyond.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/cambridge-analytica-kept-facebook-data-models-through-us-election

December 19: First lawsuit against Facebook over Cambridge Analytica filed by Washington, D.C., attorney general

“Facebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who had access to their data and how it was used,” Karl Racine said in a statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-lawsuit-against-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-filed-washington-d-n949956

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