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, big data, Bruce Schneier, Cambridge Analytica, 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