List of Cambridge Analytica Offices in India: Whistleblower Christopher Wylie Reveals Details in a Tweet
Wylie took to micro-blogging site Twitter and said that that political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica and the SCL Group have worked on several projects in India and have offices across the country.
New Delhi, March 28: A day after Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie made shocking revelations, he took to micro-blogging site Twitter to inform people of India about how the company had worked extensively in India. On Wednesday, Wylie in his tweet informed that political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica and the SCL Group have worked on several projects in India and have offices across the country.
According to his tweet, the SCL Group has a database of 600 districts and seven lakh villages across the country. He informed that the group had 10 branches in India from where it worked. The branches were located at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Bangalore in Karnataka, Cuttack in Odisha, Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, Guwahati in Assam, Hyderabad, Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal, Patna in Bihar and Pune in Maharashtra. The head office was, however, located in Indirapuram in Ghaziabad.
“I've been getting a lot of requests from Indian journalists, so here are some of SCL's past projects in India. To the most frequently asked question - yes SCL/CA works in India and has offices there. This is what modern colonialism looks like”, Wylie said.
Wylie tweeted a list of projects the SCL Group has undertaken in India since 2003. He mentioned that the Group had undertaken a project beginning with the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
On Tuesday, Cambridge Analytica had said that Wylie made false and speculative claims to a British parliamentary panel. The firm said the former employee had “misrepresented himself and the company”. It must be noted that the company is accused of using the private data of more than five crore Facebook users to influence voters during the 2016 presidential elections in the United States.
Wylie, a former Analytica employee in a deposition before the House of Commons in London on Tuesday said that the company was employed by the Congress. "I believe their (Cambridge Analytica) client was Congress but I know that they have done all kinds of projects. I don't remember a national project but I know regionally. India's so big that one state can be as big as Britain," Wylie said as part of his deposition.
Apart from talking about the scandal in India, Wylie described the alleged role of Cambridge Analytica and other such companies in elections round the world, including the Brexit campaign and the 2016 elections in the United States.
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