Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ...
by dingoonline on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:44AM
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Cambridge Analytica got their data through a paid quiz that didn't fully disclose to the user what their friends and own data were going to be used for.
It almost certainly broke EU data laws, and CA referred to their data operations as 'propaganda' when speaking to clients. https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/19/cambridge-analytica-chan...
Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ...
by strawcomb on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:15AM
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Why is CA so evil? There's just been an expose:
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ...
by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:50AM
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I asked my question after I read these articles and watched both the 16+ minute reports.
Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ...
by strawcomb on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:19AM
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Some examples: they admit in interviews to lying to obtain votes. They propose entrapping their client's opponents by bringing girls to them, or by giving them an offer 'too good to be true'. They give the impression there isn't much they won't do.
> The Obama 2012 campaign used data analytics and the experimental method to assemble a winning coalition vote by vote. In doing so, it overturned the long dominance of TV advertising in U.S. politics and created something new in the world: a national campaign run like a local ward election, where the interests of individual voters were known and addressed.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...
Obama's campaign was famously one that was 'won by data', but there was no outrage back then, in fact the opposite. What's different here?