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Now playing Next United Kingdom Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO in data row Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, in the evolving row over the improper use of the personal information of over 50 million Facebook users. 21/03/2018
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Now playing Next world news Did Cambridge Analytica help elect Donald Trump? Whistleblower Christopher Wylie speaks to NBC and journalist Carole Cadwalladr to MSNBC over revelations data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly harvested tens of millions of Facebook users’ personal information without their permission. 19/03/2018
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Now playing Next United Kingdom Cambridge University set to have a Lego professor Funded by the Lego Foundation, the professorship is tasked with testing and proving the links between play, creativity and learning 23/01/2017
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