British lawmakers to interview Cambridge academic Kogan over Facebook data

LONDON (Reuters) – A Cambridge University academic who harvested data on millions of Facebook users will appear before a British parliamentary committee investigating the scandal on April 24.

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The committee said it had called Aleksandr Kogan from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge to discuss his relationship with Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political firm also accused of improperly accessing data.

(Reporting by Kate Holton; editing by Stephen Addison)