Last week, when it became public knowledge that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal information of over 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users, allowing the Robert Mercer-owned political consulting firm to build a “psychological warfare weapon” that, according to one of the men involved, existed to exploit the “inner demons” of Americans for political gain, David […]
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David Carroll, an academic who studies online privacy, files suit against Cambridge Analytica in hopes of acquiring a copy of his psychographic targeting profile
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged advertising, Bruce Schneier, Cambridge Analytica, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbo, data, data mining, David Carroll, Donald Trump, Facebook, fake news, Hillary Clinton, NYC Media Lab, Parsons School of Design, privacy, psychographic targeting, psychological warfare, Robert Mercer, threats to Democracy, weaponization of data 21 Comments
Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?
On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged AOL, Apple, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, internet, internet business, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo 8 Comments