Data leakage for $ 6 billion. The first victim of the drone. Jeff Bezos and his dog robot

The data leakage scandal cost Facebook a record fall for 4 years

Photo: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson

Around Facebook, a scandal continues to unfold with a data leak of 50 million users collected by the political technology company Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Trump's election headquarters. After the news on the leak of the Facebook campaign, almost 7%fell, and Mark Zuckerberg lost $ 6 billion. This is the largest drop in the company's quotations over 4 years.

• The scandal began after the publications in The Guardian and The New York Times on the weekend. They stated that the company Cambridge Analytica using a psychological test, for which the social networks paid money for the passage of, without permission, collected data on the profiles of 50 million people, which she later used in the Trump election campaign.
• Today, the scandal continued after the publication of Channel 4 shooting , on which the head of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander NIX, offers a potential client different ways to discredit politicians, including with the help of “girls from Ukraine”.
• Cambridge Analytica is not an ordinary market analytical company. When creating, one of Trump's main sponsors, a billionaire resort, Robert Mercer, and CA Vice President, became the founder of Breitbart, Steve Bannon, who then became Trump's adviser in the White House. The main source of The Guardian, a former CA employee Christopher Wiley , claims that presentations of technology for exposure to voters were also carried out for the Russian Lukoil in 2014.
• Facebook behaved quite strange in the whole story. When in 2015 it turned out for the first time that Cambridge Analytica was collecting data on social networks, Facebook lawyers entered into correspondence with the company, received written assurances that the data was destroyed and calmed down. Last week, when Facebook learned about the preparatory publications of The Guardian and Nyt, the social network first threatened the publications with the courts, and then tried to play the lead and issued her own statement, which only aggravated the situation.
• For the first time that the “big data” used by CA played an important role in Trump’s victorywas written in 2016 by the Swiss edition of Das Magazin.A lot of questions arose to this article, and one of the creators of the methodology according to which the company worked, in an interview with Republic assured that its influence on the election result was exaggerated.

What am I to me?

You probably know about it yourself, but the story with Cambridge Analytica once again recalls: any pressing of the button “I agree” in social networks can lead to the most unexpected consequences. Cambridge Analytica had enough permits from 270 thousand users to collect data on 50 million.

MONEY

The first accident with a pedestrian will scare passengers from drones

Not even a month has passed since the California authorities allowed to experience unmanned cars on public roads, as in the next Arizona what everyone was afraid of. The Uber drone for the first time crushed a pedestrian to death - a woman crossing the street in a wrong place. The car was driving in an autonomous mode, but there was a driver at the wheel, who was supposed to take control at a difficult moment. Uber has already suspended all the tests of drones, but the consequences can be more serious: organizations involved in road safety have already stated that the case could scare people away from drones for years.

Central Bank for common sense

The story of businessman Nikolai Kuznetsov, who had to pay the Federal Tax Service of 31 million rubles for a return to Russia, is continuing by chance frozen by Barclays. Now for Kuznetsov (and, in general, for common sense), the Central Bank decided to join . The transaction for which Kuznetsov suffered should be considered “from the point of view of its actual meaning”, and in this case it was legal, wrote the regulator in response to a businessman's request.

Logical position - Kuznetsov transferred money from one Russian account to another, but in the chain was the American bank Standard Chartered, which froze the funds and agreed to return it only to a foreign account, for which Kuznetsov and paid for violation of foreign exchange control. But the Supreme Court, in which Kuznetsov disputes the fine, may not listen to this position, lawyers surveyed by RBC say.

Bell Club

Narrow circle with Andrei Movchan

On March 29, Andrei Movchan, director of the Economic Politics program of the Moscow Center of Carnegie, one of the most famous economists in Russia, will come to a frank conversation with the readers of The Bell.

Movchan has successfully led financial companies for many years, worked as the Executive Director of the Three Dialogue and the Renaissance Credit bank. The author of numerous popular science works on economics and financial planning.

The meeting will be the founder of the Bell project Elizaveta Ossetian. And the guests of Bellclub will have the opportunity to ask the most acute and burning questions.

• What to expect from the Russian economy in the new six years of Putin?
• What areas should be invested in, and where to withdraw money immediately?
• How to build an open business in conditions of economic isolation of the state?
• How will global policy affect the Russian and world economics in the near future?
• What will happen to the banking sector?

We do not hold the protocols of our meetings and do not publish reports in the media. This is the first and only rule of the club. To find out the important first - enter the club and come in person. Tickets can be bought here right now.

A closed meeting will traditionally be held in Cabinet Lounge . The General Partner of the event - the Simplewine wine gallery will conduct tasting elite drinks for guests. The number of tickets is limited. The first 10 guests 50% discount.

For all questions, contact Anna Kozhukhar: A.Kozhukhar@thebell.io or +7 916 714 42 65

PRACTICE

Business in Russia truly

The co-owner of Yulmart and the defendant of a high-profile criminal case with the participation of an online retailer, Dmitry Kostygin, spent almost six months under house arrest, and now continues to sue Sberbank and is going to withdraw Yulmart from the crisis. In an interview with the Secret of the Company, he said that he realized about Russia and business during the arrest and how he was going to act further: “There is no brake in the system <...> there is a lot of discusses, it is not enough. I generally wonder that so little is planted with us. ”

Farewell, social networks

There can be many reasons to completely withdraw from popular social networks (especially Facebook ). However, naturally, they do not want this at the company's users: deactivation of the account on the same Facebook does not completely remove it, and still who wants to do this should be ready to resist the social network to the last. WireD offers step -by -step instructions for complete removal of the profile on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat.

Fun

Jeff Bezos and his electric dog

Yesterday, Amazon opened its annual conference on robotics and the study of the Mars space. The founder of the company Jeff Bezos came to her in the company of an unusual companion-the famous “robot dog” from Boston Dynamics. The robot knows how to run to crawl, climb the stairs and even open the doors.

Peter Mironenko