Thread: The Cambridge Analytica Files.

at least he's on top of the 'special' relationship with England

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Make all the excuses ya want Harry, bottom line; Hillary Clinton was a total shit candidate...

Oh no doubt, but if her campaign had not fucked up she still should have beaten the even shittier candidate.

just like Obama was a total lying shit warmonger president.

Yes, shame on him for invaiding Iraq and Afghanistan!






Oh.

^And no time left for invading Crimea...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

invading Crimea..

Putin already did that.

Take a little look at these two companies.

Palantir

Trapwire

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnasty2017

Palantir

Indeed it's lucky rich lazy people can employ smart ruthless people to rob, persaude and fool the poor and easily led, twas ever thus, the firms change but the pong remains the same

not ocourse Cambridge Paralytica or Farcebook

oh and

https://www.palantir.com/careers/

'There is so much left to build. At Palantir, we work for the common good'

well if they say they work for the common good (not Mammon) we can believe them.

I think it's called PIE IN THE SKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qoB1XwtHM

And don't forget the SCL Group

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCL_Group

Just saw a Ticker on BBC News

ex employee of Cam Anal stating that they influenced the Brexit leave vote?

Facebook stock keeps sinking

Facebook shares fell another 4.9% on Tuesday, on news that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify on Capitol Hill. The company has now lost a whopping $95 billion in market value since the Cambridge Analytica revelations.


In context: Facebook's recent loss is now greater than the total market value of such companies as Qualcomm ($85b), Starbucks ($81b), Costco ($80b), CVS ($66b) and FedEx ($63b).





https://www.axios.com/facebook-stock...source=sidebar

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The scandal so far

As whistle-blower Christopher Wylie appears before UK parliamentarians, Al Jazeera examines the expanding controversy.



Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie told a UK parliamentary committee there could have been a different Brexit referendum outcome had it not been for "cheating" by proponents wanting to leave the EU.


Wylie's hearing on Tuesday was the latest in a flurry of news events since a story broke on how a company called Cambridge Analytica allegedly used illegally obtained data of more than 50 million Facebook users in an attempt to influence political outcomes.


Here's a breakdown of the fast-developing story so far:


What's the controvery?

On March 17, the London Observer and The New York Times reported that UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica acquired millions of Facebook users' personal information to build software that could target potential swing voters in political campaigns, including US President Donald Trump's 2016 election bid.


The newspapers broke the story with the help of Cambridge Analytica's co-founder and now whistle-blower Christopher Wylie.


"We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles and built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on," he told the Observer.


The data his firm used was reportedly gathered in early 2014 through an app called "thisisyourdigitallife", which was built by a Russian-American researcher at Cambridge University called Aleksandr Kogan.


About 270,000 users agreed to have their data collected and used for academic research in exchange for a small payment. The Times reported Cambridge Analytica covered the costs of the app, more than $800,000.


However, the app not only collected personal information from the people who downloaded it, but also of unknowing friends.


Kogan provided information from more than 50 million Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica, which was used by the company to create 30 million "psychographic" profiles that could then be used to design targeted political ads.


What happened next?

The initial reports set in motion a string of allegations and events that have been difficult to keep up with.


Investigations were launched on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed on Monday it was investigating Facebook's privacy practices. UK authorities raided Cambridge Analytica's London offices last Friday night.


Cambridge Analytica said on March 17 it deleted all data received from Kogan's company, Global Science Research (GSR), when it found out it had not been obtained in line with Facebook’s policies.


"No data from GSR was used by Cambridge Analytica as part of the services it provided to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign," it said.


Kogan, meanwhile, said he felt scapegoated by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. "Honestly we thought we were acting perfectly appropriately. We thought we were doing something that was really normal," he told the BBC last Wednesday.


On March 19, the UK's Channel 4 News broadcast undercover footage showing Cambridge Analytica executives - including CEO Alexander Nix - boasting they could entrap politicians with bribes and other ploys.


Nix was suspended by his firm a day later, though in a statement the company also said the Channel 4 News report had was edited to "grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations".


Meanwhile, questions have been raised about Cambridge Analytica's involvement in other election campaigns.


The Observer published allegations the company had worked with people thought to be Israeli computer hackers in an unsuccessful attempt to sway the vote in Nigeria's 2015 presidential election. Others raised questionsabout the role of Cambridge Analytica in shaping the outcome of Kenya's disputed elections, in which Uhuru Kenyatta emerged victorious.


On Tuesday, Wylie testified before UK parliamentarians about how pro-Brexit campaigners linked to Cambridge Analytica allegedly "cheated" in the run-up to the refendum on leaving the European Union.


His nearly four-hour testimony followed allegations by a separate whistle-blower, Shahmir Sanni, that pro-Brexit campaign groups potentially broke laws on referendum spending limits when it paid data firm AggregateIQ, which is linked to Cambridge Analytica, for digital marketing services.


AggregateIQ reportedly received 40 percent of Vote Leave's entire budget. The organisation's campaign director Dominic Cummings said after the referendum victory, "We couldn’t have done it without [AggregateIQ]." According to the Observer, thatquote was taken down from the company's website on Thursday after being contacted by journalists.


Why are people angry at Facebook?

In the days following the original reporting, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteFacebook began trending. Congress asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on what had happened. The social media giant's share value took a dramatic dive, down $60bn at one point down.


Facebook rejected the claim that a data breach had happened. "People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked," it said in a statement.


When the data harvesting was taking place, Facebook's policy allowed for collection of friends' data by app creators and academics, though selling this data to third parties or using it for advertising was not prohibited.


In 2015, Facebook found out Kogan's company allegedly violated its policies when it passed the material on to Cambridge Analytica. In the March 16 statement, the social media company said it had been assured then that Cambridge Analytica, Kogan, and Wylie had deleted the data.


Still, the Observer reported: "at the time [Facebook] failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals".


Kogan's app was removed from Facebook in 2015, but the social media behemoth didn't suspend Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group - the firm that serviced contracts won by Cambridge Analytica and was called "effectively a shell" - until March 16, four days after the Observer contacted Facebook for comment.


Zuckerberg has since apologised for what he called a "breach of trust" in full-page newspaper ads in several UK and US newspapers.


On Tuesday, it was reported Zuckerberg will testify before US Congress on the Cambridge Analytica leak, though he declined to answer questions from UK lawmakers.


Irrespective of Facebook's culpability, the scandal has tapped into ongoing concerns about how careful the platform is with users' data - and how the company has been used to influence political outcomes.


Facebook has been under scrutiny over whether it did enough to stop Russian propaganda aimed at influencing the US election from spreading misinformation on users' news feeds.


Reports of discontent among Facebook's ranks have emerged. In November 2016, BuzzFeed reported that Facebook employees had formed "an unofficial task force" to create a list of recommendations to the company's senior management about how to address the platform's fake news problem.


Back then, Zuckerberg said the idea that fake news had affected the outcome of the US election was "a pretty crazy idea".


This latest controversy does little to assuage fears that Facebook is unable or unwilling to prevent third parties from using it to further interests that go against those of its users.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...172353667.html

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The scandal so far

As whistle-blower Christopher Wylie appears before UK parliamentarians, Al Jazeera examines the expanding controversy.



Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie told a UK parliamentary committee there could have been a different Brexit referendum outcome had it not been for "cheating" by proponents wanting to leave the EU.


Wylie's hearing on Tuesday was the latest in a flurry of news events since a story broke on how a company called Cambridge Analytica allegedly used illegally obtained data of more than 50 million Facebook users in an attempt to influence political outcomes.


Here's a breakdown of the fast-developing story so far:


What's the controvery?

On March 17, the London Observer and The New York Times reported that UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica acquired millions of Facebook users' personal information to build software that could target potential swing voters in political campaigns, including US President Donald Trump's 2016 election bid.


The newspapers broke the story with the help of Cambridge Analytica's co-founder and now whistle-blower Christopher Wylie.


"We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles and built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on," he told the Observer.


The data his firm used was reportedly gathered in early 2014 through an app called "thisisyourdigitallife", which was built by a Russian-American researcher at Cambridge University called Aleksandr Kogan.


About 270,000 users agreed to have their data collected and used for academic research in exchange for a small payment. The Times reported Cambridge Analytica covered the costs of the app, more than $800,000.


However, the app not only collected personal information from the people who downloaded it, but also of unknowing friends.


Kogan provided information from more than 50 million Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica, which was used by the company to create 30 million "psychographic" profiles that could then be used to design targeted political ads.


What happened next?

The initial reports set in motion a string of allegations and events that have been difficult to keep up with.


Investigations were launched on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed on Monday it was investigating Facebook's privacy practices. UK authorities raided Cambridge Analytica's London offices last Friday night.


Cambridge Analytica said on March 17 it deleted all data received from Kogan's company, Global Science Research (GSR), when it found out it had not been obtained in line with Facebook’s policies.


"No data from GSR was used by Cambridge Analytica as part of the services it provided to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign," it said.


Kogan, meanwhile, said he felt scapegoated by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. "Honestly we thought we were acting perfectly appropriately. We thought we were doing something that was really normal," he told the BBC last Wednesday.


On March 19, the UK's Channel 4 News broadcast undercover footage showing Cambridge Analytica executives - including CEO Alexander Nix - boasting they could entrap politicians with bribes and other ploys.


Nix was suspended by his firm a day later, though in a statement the company also said the Channel 4 News report had was edited to "grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations".


Meanwhile, questions have been raised about Cambridge Analytica's involvement in other election campaigns.


The Observer published allegations the company had worked with people thought to be Israeli computer hackers in an unsuccessful attempt to sway the vote in Nigeria's 2015 presidential election. Others raised questionsabout the role of Cambridge Analytica in shaping the outcome of Kenya's disputed elections, in which Uhuru Kenyatta emerged victorious.


On Tuesday, Wylie testified before UK parliamentarians about how pro-Brexit campaigners linked to Cambridge Analytica allegedly "cheated" in the run-up to the refendum on leaving the European Union.


His nearly four-hour testimony followed allegations by a separate whistle-blower, Shahmir Sanni, that pro-Brexit campaign groups potentially broke laws on referendum spending limits when it paid data firm AggregateIQ, which is linked to Cambridge Analytica, for digital marketing services.


AggregateIQ reportedly received 40 percent of Vote Leave's entire budget. The organisation's campaign director Dominic Cummings said after the referendum victory, "We couldn’t have done it without [AggregateIQ]." According to the Observer, thatquote was taken down from the company's website on Thursday after being contacted by journalists.


Why are people angry at Facebook?

In the days following the original reporting, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteFacebook began trending. Congress asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on what had happened. The social media giant's share value took a dramatic dive, down $60bn at one point down.


Facebook rejected the claim that a data breach had happened. "People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked," it said in a statement.


When the data harvesting was taking place, Facebook's policy allowed for collection of friends' data by app creators and academics, though selling this data to third parties or using it for advertising was not prohibited.


In 2015, Facebook found out Kogan's company allegedly violated its policies when it passed the material on to Cambridge Analytica. In the March 16 statement, the social media company said it had been assured then that Cambridge Analytica, Kogan, and Wylie had deleted the data.


Still, the Observer reported: "at the time [Facebook] failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals".


Kogan's app was removed from Facebook in 2015, but the social media behemoth didn't suspend Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group - the firm that serviced contracts won by Cambridge Analytica and was called "effectively a shell" - until March 16, four days after the Observer contacted Facebook for comment.


Zuckerberg has since apologised for what he called a "breach of trust" in full-page newspaper ads in several UK and US newspapers.


On Tuesday, it was reported Zuckerberg will testify before US Congress on the Cambridge Analytica leak, though he declined to answer questions from UK lawmakers.


Irrespective of Facebook's culpability, the scandal has tapped into ongoing concerns about how careful the platform is with users' data - and how the company has been used to influence political outcomes.


Facebook has been under scrutiny over whether it did enough to stop Russian propaganda aimed at influencing the US election from spreading misinformation on users' news feeds.


Reports of discontent among Facebook's ranks have emerged. In November 2016, BuzzFeed reported that Facebook employees had formed "an unofficial task force" to create a list of recommendations to the company's senior management about how to address the platform's fake news problem.


Back then, Zuckerberg said the idea that fake news had affected the outcome of the US election was "a pretty crazy idea".


This latest controversy does little to assuage fears that Facebook is unable or unwilling to prevent third parties from using it to further interests that go against those of its users.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...172353667.html

Originally Posted by baldrick

the reason drumpf is the president of seppoland is because the majority of americans are rascist arseholes

Obama was a great president - and as for warmonger , drumpf would try and bomb countries that don't actually exist if you trolled the fat stupid cnut on twitter

hillary might have been a sh1t candidate - but she would have been a much better choice than the human windsock

and the supposed greatest democracy in the world did not elect Bernie - history will record that as an epic fcukup

America is not a democracy.

Back then, Zuckerberg said the idea that fake news had affected the outcome of the US election was "a pretty crazy idea".

Unlike other ideas that are "highly likely"...

On Tuesday, Wylie testified before UK parliamentarians about how pro-Brexit campaigners linked to Cambridge Analytica allegedly "cheated" in the run-up to the refendum on leaving the European Union.


His nearly four-hour testimony followed allegations by a separate whistle-blower, Shahmir Sanni, that pro-Brexit campaign groups potentially broke laws on referendum spending limits when it paid data firm AggregateIQ, which is linked to Cambridge Analytica, for digital marketing services.

And yet the remain camp spent twice as much as leave on attempting to sway voters including a taxpayer funded leaflet costing over 9 million pounds : https://www.westmonster.com/governme...-double-leave/

So who cheated the most those who used taxpayer money or voter profiling?

So much more here...

what a frigging mess,

it feels like Season 6 of Homeland, it was all about NSA and online manipulation

people will really fall for anything these days, including politicians

Facebook Admits Millions More People Were Affected by Cambridge Analytica Breach Than Previously Known

Personal data on up to 87 million people may have been “improperly shared.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...dge-analytica/

they were not improperly shared,

that's facebook business model, it's a Pentagon project from the beginning, their VC was only involved in Pentagon sponsored projects like drones, military equipment etc... facebook was the "information wars" and cybersecurity aka hacking

facebook is a spying tool, and that's what they sell commercially to their clients

it's also painfully slow, poorly developed (Indians) and their UI is frigging nightmare that only make sense to a brain Thai teenager with no clue of what she is doing