• The shared building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica are pictured in central London on Wednesday. The academic behind the app that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users said Wednesday he was being used as a scapegoat in the row over online privacy. Aleksandr Kogan said that British firm Cambridge Analytica, which is at the center of a major scandal rocking Facebook, assured him that what he was doing was 'perfectly legal and within the terms of service' of the social media giant. | AFP-JIJI
    The shared building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica are pictured in central London on Wednesday. The academic behind the app that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users said Wednesday he was being used as a scapegoat in the row over online privacy. Aleksandr Kogan said that British firm Cambridge Analytica, which is at the center of a major scandal rocking Facebook, assured him that what he was doing was "perfectly legal and within the terms of service" of the social media giant. | AFP-JIJI

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MOSCOW/FRANKFURT, GERMANY – The psychologist at the center of a scandal over the misuse of millions of Facebook users’ personal data worked with Russian researchers on a study of pathological personality traits.

Aleksandr Kogan advised a team at St. Petersburg State University that was exploring whether psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism — dubbed the “dark triad” by psychologists — were linked to abusive online behavior, said Yanina Ledovaya, senior lecturer at the university’s department of psychology.

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