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Facebook must change and policymakers must act on data, warns UK watchdog

sudshr47 November 6, 2018

The UK’s data watchdog has warned that Facebook must overhaul its privacy-hostile business model or risk burning user trust for good. Comments she made today have also raised questions over the legality of so-called lookalike audiences to target political ads at users of its platform. Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham was giving evidence to the Digital, […]

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Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s plan for voters’ Facebook data

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]

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Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge Analytica

sudshr47 March 28, 2018

Turns out there is a link between Peter Thiel’s secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, and Cambridge Analytica — the political consulting firm at the center of the current Facebook data misuse scandal. Facebook responds to data misuse Starting in 2013, the New York Times reports that a UK-based Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica — going […]