Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
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teqniq
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Facebook fined for data breaches in Cambridge Analytica scandal
Only £500,000 which is the maximum allowed under the Data protection Act. Apparently because of the 'timing' of the breaches they couldn't be prosecuted under newer legislation. I imagine it's small beer to a company like Facebook and though the article goes on to say that it will have damaged their reputation, that maybe only be really reflected in investment decisions. I reckon the user base will probably remain about the same.
Only £500,000 which is the maximum allowed under the Data protection Act. Apparently because of the 'timing' of the breaches they couldn't be prosecuted under newer legislation. I imagine it's small beer to a company like Facebook and though the article goes on to say that it will have damaged their reputation, that maybe only be really reflected in investment decisions. I reckon the user base will probably remain about the same.
cybershot
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cybershot
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And their shares rise 1.8%. Such is the world we live in.
teqniq
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The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal
Meanwhile the scumbag that is Aaron Banks is a) bringing an action against Carole Cadwalader and b) bringing another action against Neflix presumably in the hopes of getting them to pull the film. The man doth pretest too much, I suspect he's a tad nervous.
Meanwhile the scumbag that is Aaron Banks is a) bringing an action against Carole Cadwalader and b) bringing another action against Neflix presumably in the hopes of getting them to pull the film. The man doth pretest too much, I suspect he's a tad nervous.
The Great Hack is out on the torrents currently. It really pulls the curtains back on Cambridge Anylitica; exposing it as a highly weaponised properganda machine and pointing out the right wing influence: Steve Bannon.
There is also these interviews from DemocracyNow!
StoryJan 10, 2020 “Democracy For Sale”: Cambridge Analytica & Big Tech’s History of Manipulating Elections
StoryJan 10, 2020 The Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016 Election of Trump
Meet Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Releasing Troves of New Files from Data Firm
“The Great Hack”: Big Data Firms Helped Sway the 2016 Election. Could It Happen Again in 2020?
Propaganda Machine: The Military Roots of Cambridge Analytica’s Psychological Manipulation of Voters
Facebook Is a Crime Scene: “The Great Hack” Documentary Details Big Data’s Threat to Democracy
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.. and here is Chomsky, in the spring of 2017, laying it out :
There is also these interviews from DemocracyNow!
StoryJan 10, 2020 “Democracy For Sale”: Cambridge Analytica & Big Tech’s History of Manipulating Elections
StoryJan 10, 2020 The Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016 Election of Trump
Meet Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Releasing Troves of New Files from Data Firm
“The Great Hack”: Big Data Firms Helped Sway the 2016 Election. Could It Happen Again in 2020?
Propaganda Machine: The Military Roots of Cambridge Analytica’s Psychological Manipulation of Voters
Facebook Is a Crime Scene: “The Great Hack” Documentary Details Big Data’s Threat to Democracy
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.. and here is Chomsky, in the spring of 2017, laying it out :
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bimble
floofy
do watch this. Channel 4 news have a leak of the immense cache of data used by the trump campaign last time around.
The actual workings of how people were profiled in the 2016 american election (by cambridge analytica in a symbiotic relationship with Facebook), the detail they had on file and the micro-targetted ads beamed out as a result- millions of people who could not be persuaded to vote in the desired way targetted instead with ads designed to make them stay at home and not vote - and how effective that seems to have been.
The actual workings of how people were profiled in the 2016 american election (by cambridge analytica in a symbiotic relationship with Facebook), the detail they had on file and the micro-targetted ads beamed out as a result- millions of people who could not be persuaded to vote in the desired way targetted instead with ads designed to make them stay at home and not vote - and how effective that seems to have been.
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Cloo
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Well CA used that same thing to shocking effect in Trinidad & Tobago - staggers me that it wasn't illegal vote rigging to hire someone to do that.
Everybody thinks that they personally are immune from influence, though, being free and independent agents that decide everything from scratch in context-free, rational logic. It’s only everybody else that needs protection from propaganda.
Lurdan
old wave
The former CEO of Cambridge Analytica is put on the naughty step. From the official press release issued by the Insolvency Service.
ska invita
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yeah not being a director is hardly a punishment - lots of other ways he can still work at a top level. You can even sit on a board of directors, just not as a listed director
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magneze
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It isn't for the reason you already stated. They have your data. They don't give a shit.
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I deleted mine a week ago. I just couldn't live with the feeling that I was participating/complicit in the success of a toxic platform that was actively a force for bad in the world.
ska invita
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i am immune for campaign videos from mainstream political parties.
the seeming proven fact a number of people are just a few videos away from voting differently is pretty depressing...then again "floating voters" are a strange bunch too.
my instinct isnt that people should delete facebook to protect themselves/be protected from cleverly targetted political videos though.
It does show we are in an era of wild West political education/awareness.... There's an opportunity for the left here, however for now big money wins out once again.
ska invita
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One book I looked at on this topic made the case focusing on CA was a red herring, it's Facebook just being Facebook...CA are just middlemen
ska invita
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This book
Book Review: Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan
In Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan explores the paradoxically disconnective and antisocial character of social media, with a particular f…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Lurdan
old wave
Well according to that press release
But I guess what he's actually being accused of falls under the heading of 'unhelpful blatancy'.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
Not to try and dampen the "fuck facebook" sentiment with indecipherable geeky gibberish, but just deleting your facebook profile usually isn't enough to stop them tracking you and influencing other things. Most web pages (urban being one of the vanishingly few exceptions) contain tracking beacons and scripts from one surveillance capitalism entity or another and will still be able to track most people who've removed their facebook accounts by way of other metadata (amongst other things, techniques called browser fingerprinting). The "not linked to an active account but we're pretty sure who they are" stuff is called a shadow profile and it still sold to third parties and manipulated by others even if you're not part of the facebook ecosystem and will still be used by other sites to suggest products or promote links to stuff it'll think you'll react to.
Installing a good ad-blocker (and if you're prepared to deal with the breakage, a tracking or script-blocker) is really the best way to starve the fuckers stone dead. uBlock Origin with all of the social stuff turned on is a very good way to start.
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I don't really care about any of that (although I do have an ad-blocker). I just don't want to use it, I don't want to endorse it, and I don't want to be a part of a platform that is so toxically destructive. I use plenty of other services that I'm sure track me and sell on anonymised data, but they don't bother me because they're not facebook.
