Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

[TBoneTX 43,058]

Avoid talking about sheep -- Spooky's in the thread.

[TBoneTX 43,058]

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[Jacque67 7,328]

co-director of a company that harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling it to the controversial data analytics firms Cambridge Analytica is currently working for the tech giant as an in-house psychologist.

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

 

 

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Joseph Chancellor was one of two founding directors of Global Science Research (GSR), the company that harvested Facebook data using a personality app under the guise of academic research and later shared the data with Cambridge Analytica.

He was hired to work at Facebook as a quantitative social psychologist around November 2015, roughly two months after leaving GSR, which had by then acquired data on millions of Facebook users.

Chancellor is still working as a researcher at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast trove of data on more than 2 billion users.

It is not known how much Chancellor knew of the operation to harvest the data of more than 50 million Facebook users and pass their information on to the company that went on to run data analytics for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Chancellor was a director of GSR along with Aleksandr Kogan, a more senior Cambridge University psychologist who is said to have devised the scheme to harvest Facebook data from people who used a personality app that was ostensibly acquiring data for academic research.

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambridge-analytica-joseph-chancellor-gsr

 

hmm...Zuckerberg and the Mercers.

 

i remember there were several threads over the past few years with personality tests...how would you vote, are you a moderate or libertarian etc. Many took part including me (my answers were false to the quizzes)  

[Dashinka 23,243]

7 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

You are on social media right now. 

I am not part of any MDL identity groups.

[Dashinka 23,243]

1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

co-director of a company that harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling it to the controversial data analytics firms Cambridge Analytica is currently working for the tech giant as an in-house psychologist.

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

 

 

Read more

Joseph Chancellor was one of two founding directors of Global Science Research (GSR), the company that harvested Facebook data using a personality app under the guise of academic research and later shared the data with Cambridge Analytica.

He was hired to work at Facebook as a quantitative social psychologist around November 2015, roughly two months after leaving GSR, which had by then acquired data on millions of Facebook users.

Chancellor is still working as a researcher at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast trove of data on more than 2 billion users.

It is not known how much Chancellor knew of the operation to harvest the data of more than 50 million Facebook users and pass their information on to the company that went on to run data analytics for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Chancellor was a director of GSR along with Aleksandr Kogan, a more senior Cambridge University psychologist who is said to have devised the scheme to harvest Facebook data from people who used a personality app that was ostensibly acquiring data for academic research.

So it is OK for FB to conduct psychological experiments? 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Wylie has literal receipts including a letter from FB's own lawyers admitting CA had acquired data illegitimately. He's now been banned by FB.

joseph chancellor is dodgy, as well as dr spectre. Smart operation, but they're in trouble now.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Cambridge Analytica advertises itself as "Data-driven behaviour change"

Dr Spectre/Logan has gotten grants from the Russian government. Facebook's alogorithm has focused on how to influence a whole network on what people want to see.

 

 

[Dashinka 23,243]

Wasn’t Obama praised in 2012/2013 for using data mining?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Oh

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-zuckerberg/zuckerberg-sold-nearly-500-million-facebook-stock-in-february-idUSKCN1GD5OH

 

C4 programme a stunner apparently.

[Jacque67 7,328]

 

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Caught on tape saying they use bribes and sex-workers to entrap politicians. Hmmm....

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Wasn’t Obama praised in 2012/2013 for using data mining?

Yes, all modern elections organizations use data mining and AI.  They don't steal data though.  

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/19/cambridge-analytica-execs-boast-dirty-tricks-honey-traps-elections

 

Nix meanwhile on BBC claiming the expose is fake news. He's nixed.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

 

Facebook down 7 points, 35 Billion drop in wealth in hours.