DeaconSig
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Evan McMuffin..
Hahahaha.. Wapo’s gunslinging Rino liar. He was once overheard saying “Why report when I can invent?”
No he wasn’t.
Evan McMuffin..
Hahahaha.. Wapo’s gunslinging Rino liar. He was once overheard saying “Why report when I can invent?”
and the gist of it all..
“Yet, on the most obvious level, Cambridge Analytica is another story about double standards. The only consistent position the Left seems to take these days is that the mechanisms they use to keep power automatically transform into nefarious and un-democratic when the opposition use them.
By constantly using the word “breach,” for instance, reporters are trying to insinuate that someone stole voter data that typically is off limits. Cambridge Analytica was allowed to pull that profile data. Facebook only changed its policy in early 2015. But then Trump campaign dropped Cambridge Analytica before the general election for the RNC data, reportedly never using the any of the “psychographic” information. According to CBS News, in Sept. 2016, it had “tested the RNC data, and it proved to be vastly more accurate.”
Even if they hadn’t, however, their efforts would have been akin to those being heralded as revolutionary when it served the interests of Democrats. Facebook, in fact, allowed the Obama campaign to data harvest in the same way that is now generating headlines and handwringing. Do you remember any outrage and trepidation over privacy and manipulation of your thoughts in 2012? If anything, there should be outrage that a massive social media company allowed one party to do things that it forbade another.
Around mid-2015, Kaiser says, the company knew Facebook was changing its API rules to restrict the data that could be harvested through questionnaires like Kogan’s.
This appears to have prompted a last-minute grab for data. In one internal email seen by the Guardian, employees are asked to identify which issues on a list of 500 Facebook “like” items would be most “useful for political modeling or commercial sales”.
It is unclear from the email where the data was coming from, but the list is curiously revealing. Cambridge Analytica didn’t want to know who “liked” Eminem, Family Guy, YouTube, The Walking Dead or Mountain Dew. It was, however, interested in Facebook users who “liked” Mitt Romney, Walt Disney World, the US Marine Corps and Coca-Cola.
You're an idiot. You're* posting bullshit on a thread I started 15 months ago that explains the depth of the data analysis. The personality quiz has nothing to do with Trump or the election. That was nearly a decade ago. The data analysis used for the Brexit and Trump campaigns was from general facebook use.You and your friends are crying about Facebook
How to check if your Facebook information was shared with Cambridge Analytica
One of my friends used the stupid app.
The sight of lawmakers yelling at Mr. Zuckerberg might feel cathartic, but the danger of a public spectacle is that it will look like progress but amount to nothing: a few apologies from Mr. Zuckerberg, some earnest-sounding promises to do better, followed by a couple of superficial changes to Facebook that fail to address the underlying structural problems.
This has been Facebook’s public relations strategy for years. After each scandal, it expresses regrets, announces a few cosmetic fixes and then works like mad to scuttle any legislation that might have a favorable impact on the core problem: how our data is harvested, used and profited from. It would be a shame if we went through that again.
How to check if your Facebook information was shared with Cambridge Analytica
One of my friends used the stupid app.
I haven't been following the hearings, I just check Kara Swisher's twitter feed periodically. These guys all have digital media people, hopefully they talked to them between yesterday and today.
We Already Know How to Protect Ourselves From Facebook
I’m looking forward to the SNL sketch of dumb senators asking Zuckerberg questions.
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goodbye Cambridge Analytica
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43983958
Now we can rest easy knowing our online data is safe, secure and private, now and forevermore.