>The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions ofFacebookprofiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box A whistleblower has revealed to theObserverhowCambridge Analytica– a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.
>Documents seen by theObserver, and confirmed by a Facebook statement, show that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. However, at the time it failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals.
>The data was collected through an app called thisisyourdigitallife, built by academic Aleksandr Kogan, separately from his work at Cambridge University. Through his company Global Science Research (GSR), in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica, hundreds of thousands ofusers were paid to take a personality test and agreed to have their data collected for academic use.
>Cambridge Analytica’s chief executive, Alexander Nix, told the inquiry: “We do not work with Facebook data and we do not have Facebook data.”
>Wylie, a Canadian data analytics expert, who worked with Cambridge Analytica and Kogan to devise and implement the scheme, showed a dossier of evidence about the data misuse to theObserverwhich appears to raise questions about their testimony. He has passed it to the National Crime Agency’s cybercrime unit and the Information Commissioner’s Office.
>data breach So the story is that Facebook gave up a ton of data, then asked people who got access to it to delete it. They are butthurt that CA did not. This is a facebook scandal and attempt to CYA.
Justin Murphy
Wow, great link you got there, I mean really, excellent source.........................oh wait
Jason Moore
Brainlet could have looked it up in the same amount of time he took to write this post lmao.
Basically no one is obligated to give a single fuck about Facebook's terms of service. The worst that can happen is that particular company will have to rename itself or use a shell to do the exact same thing again.
Liam Anderson
Dude, if it's legal it's ok, lmao.
Dumb Confederate goy betrays his ancestors.
Liam Rivera
mods this bong bot is broken please sweep it up
Ethan Powell
Reported to Scotland Yard. Enjoy Muhammad's unwashed dick, Nigel.
Gavin Rogers
Dumb goy at it again. Unable to win a single argument in the entire thread, cries out to his (((masters))) one last time.
Pathetic.
Jace Ramirez
>People post their information publicly >Some people are literally paid to take personality tests But the South fought for the right of people to not have things they say in public recorded down or some dumb shit. Doesn't your daughter have a date with Muhammad tonight? Better not post anything negative about it on Facebook or else your government will make sure your hateful ass is in prison.
Eli Stewart
LOL SOCIAL MEDIA FAGGOTS BTFO AGAIN
Jordan Green
Once all 50 million of these russians votes are wiped it will finally be her time
go back to leftypol you mental case, you're incomprehensible meme spouting posts are autistic
Joshua Smith
>12 posts by this fag so you're a shill
Kayden Thompson
Trying way too hard to keep your thread alive, shill Sage
Cameron Mitchell
>Muh shill
Cool argument.
>In b4 muh mooslims
Noah Sanchez
>that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. So? It's not illegal to crawl public information. If it was, Google would've been banned forever ago.
Daniel Diaz
> bought data from a bunch of niggers who do this for profit (facebook) > Spied Pick one
Colton Wilson
Dumb goy loves his exploitation.
Dumb goy thinks being anti ((capitalism)) means you're a commie.
Logan Hill
Dumb goy thinks legality defines morality.
Anthony Wood
Dumb goy thinks replying to posts equates to shilling.
