Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email to cover its tracks

When you’re in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it’s perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail. 

Cambridge Analytica has that all figured out.

According to a London Channel 4 investigation published today, the data analytics and electoral strategy firm that worked with the Trump presidential campaign used an encrypted email service to communicate with clients — and set email to self-delete after two hours. 

So explained now-former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who was caught on hidden camera telling a journalist posing as a potential client that his company uses an email client called ProtonMail to proactively delete potential evidence.  Read more…

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