Facebook: Cambridge Analytica did not access EU user data

Cambridge Analytica which wrongfully accessed user data for political campaigns did not use EU user information, Facebook told lawmakers. Based on the testimony by researcher Aleksandr Kogan, no European user's information was accessed as the data firm was interested only in American users' data for US-centric political campaigns, Engadget reported.

It was earlier reported that data on 2.7 million European users had also been accessed by Kogan's app. Previously it was reported that the former head of Cambridge Analytica admitted that his firm had received data from the researcher at the centre of a scandal over Facebook users’ personal details, contradicting previous testimony to lawmakers.

Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by Donald Trump in 2016, has denied its work on the U.S. president’s successful election campaign made use of data allegedly improperly harvested from around 87 million Facebook users. Former chief Alexander Nix, in earlier testimony to parliament’s media committee, also denied the political consultancy had ever been given data by Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher linked to the scandal.