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The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge
https://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/Last activity: 30.07.2020
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The Psychometrics Centre is an international centre of excellence in psychological, occupational, clinical and educational assessment. All our activities are informed by cutting edge research, validated by theory and best practice across the full spectrum of assessment.
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Mentions in press and media 12
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| Jul 30, 2020 | Facebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet | A decade of apparent indifference for data privacy at Facebook has culminated in revelations that organizations harvested user data for targeted advertising, particularly political advertising, to apparent success. While the most well-known... |
| Jul 11, 2018 | ICO Investigation Closes in on Facebook and Data Brokers | 2018 has been a tumultuous year so far for Facebook, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal blowing the lid on endemic levels of fake news, illegal data harvesting and outright deception of voters across the western world. Following his appea... |
| May 14, 2018 | Data collected on 3 million Facebook users of a suspended app may have been exposed | Earlier today, Facebook announced that it had suspended 200 apps as part of its ongoing investigation into how third parties may have mishandled user data following the Cambridge Analytica trainwreck. But the company didn’t say which apps i... |
| May 14, 2018 | Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4-million-user Facebook data set for years | A data set of more than 3 million Facebook users and a variety of their personal details collected by Cambridge researchers was available for anyone to download for some four years, New Scientist reports. It’s likely only one of many places... |
| May 14, 2018 | Data collected on 3 million Facebook users of a suspended app may have been exposed | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Earlier today, Facebook announced that it had suspended 200 apps as part of its ongoing investigation into how third parties may have m... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Kogan: ‘I don’t think Facebook has a developer policy that is valid’ | A Cambridge University academic at the center of a data misuse scandal involving Facebook user data and political ad targeting faced questions from the UK parliament this morning. Although the two-hour evidence session in front of the DCMS ... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | Cambridge University hits back at Zuckerberg’s shade | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the House yesterday was a mostly bland performance, punctuated by frequent claims not to know or remember certain fundamental aspects of his own business. But he gave a curiously specific and aggr... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Meet the weaponized propaganda AI that knows you better than you know yourself | Is it worse to be distracted by irrelevant ads, or to be monitored closely enough that the ads are accurate but creepy? Why choose? (Why not Zoidberg?) One company called Cambridge Analytica has managed to apply what some are calling a “wea... |
| May 11, 2016 | Keyrus partners with University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre’s Apply Magic Sauce API | Keyrus partners with University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre’s Apply Magic Sauce API 11-05-2016 In keeping with its continuous innovation and research in the analytics field, Keyrus, an international player in Data Intelligence, Digita... |
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What has the press written about The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge, among them “Facebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet” (Jul 30, 2020) and “ICO Investigation Closes in on Facebook and Data Brokers” (Jul 11, 2018).
Is The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge still active?
Yes, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 30, 2020.