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WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.K. professor at the center of the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Tuesday rejected the idea that the Facebook user data he provided to the Trump-linked firm were helpful in targeting voters.<\/p>\n

Aleksandr Kogan, in testimony<\/a> before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, said the notion that the data were weaponized to dupe people into voting in a particular way in the 2016 election \u201crests on an incorrect premise about the data and its utility.\u201d He said many claims about his work are exaggerated or false.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe there is almost no chance this data could have been helpful to a political campaign \u2014 and I still have not seen any evidence to indicate that the Trump campaign used this dataset to micro-target voters,\u201d Kogan said.<\/p>\n

Kogan is a central figure in the ongoing controversy. He collected data on millions of Facebook users via a quiz app and shared that information with Cambridge Analytica, which did work for the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

Kogan acknowledged that \u201cpeople may feel angry and violated\u201d about the use of their data, calling it \u201can understandable emotional reaction\u201d and saying hes \u201cvery regretful\u201d he did not better anticipate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy view is that we should think hard about finding ways to empower consumers, giving them the ability to make more informed decisions about how their data is used,\u201d he said. \u201cThis, I fear, cannot be left entirely to companies and consumers to work out among themselves as business interests may run counter to consumer privacy interests because of present revenue models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read this next: Merkel dismisses Trumps claims about German crime<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

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