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March 20, 2018 09:47 pm GMT
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Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email to cover its tracks
When you're in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it's perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail.
Cambridge Analytica has that all figured out.
According to a London Channel 4 investigation published today, the data analytics and electoral strategy firm that worked with the Trump presidential campaign used an encrypted email service to communicate with clients — and set email to self-delete after two hours.
So explained now-former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who was caught on hidden camera telling a journalist posing as a potential client that his company uses an email client called ProtonMail to proactively delete potential evidence. Read more...
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