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Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL (cambridgeanalytica.org)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is this not the exact same Cambridge Analytica? Wikipedia seems to say this is their domain.

[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Their legal notice https://cambridgeanalytica.org/legal-notice/ says

The website cambridgeanalytica.org is published by Vortexlab Digital Marketing, a digital media and research-oriented publishing company headquartered in:

Dubai Silicon Oasis, DDP, Building A1
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

So it seems like they're a separate thing, but it's confusing.

Wikipedia says:

(Cambidge Analytica) closed operations in 2018 due to backlash from the data scandal