Data Propria, run by Cambridge Analytica alumni, working on Trump 2020 campaign

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Enlarge / Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s campaign digital director, arrives at Trump Tower, December 6, 2016. (credit: y Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Data Propria, a brand-new “data and behavioral science company” run by former staff at Cambridge Analytica, has been “quietly working” for the president’s 2020 re-election campaign, according to the Associated Press.

Two reporters from the news organization overheard Matt Oczkowski, the company’s president, tell someone in a public place that he and Brad Parscale, who is Donald Trump’s re-election campaign manager, were “doing the president’s work for 2020.”

Neither Oczkowski nor Parscale immediately responded to Ars’ request for comment on Twitter. Oczkowski “denied a link to the Trump campaign, but acknowledged that his new firm has agreed to do 2018 campaign work for the Republican National Committee,” according to the AP.

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