Cambridge University rejected Facebook study over 'deceptive' privacy standards

Exclusive: panel told researcher Aleksandr Kogan that Facebook's approach fell 'far below ethical expectations'

A Cambridge University ethics panel rejected research by the academic at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting scandal over the social network's "deceptive" approach to its users privacy, newly released documents reveal.

A 2015 proposal by Aleksandr Kogan, a member of the university's psychology department, involved the personal data from 250,000 Facebook users and their 54 million friends that he had already gleaned via a personality quiz app in a commercial project funded by SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica.