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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Former staff from scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica (CA) have set up another data analysis company.
Auspex International will be "ethically based" and offer "boutique geopolitical consultancy" services, according to its website.
CA was shut down by its parent company, SCL Elections, which itself faces criminal charges over failure to supply data when requested.
Auspex will work in the Middle East and Africa initially.
The company was set up by Ahmed Al-Khatib, a former director of Emerdata, which was also created in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to continue the work it was doing.
In a press release announcing the new company, he says CA's collapse was a "bitter disappointment" to him.
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(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday July 18 2018, @01:52AM
Absolutely.
I did some work several years ago for a large 'energy sector' multinational who was standardising policies and procedures across all of their global offices. They actually had a formal policy for how to handle bribes, or "facility payments" in some of the places that they operated (e.g. mining in Africa). To their credit, the company absolutely forbade these transactions unless a country was below a particular corruption index figure (something like this table [transparency.org]). Even then, there were certain signoffs required, limits imposed, and only certain conditions under which it could be used. It was all in the policy - fascinating reading!