I wanna talk a sec about CA, FB, and data science for a sec. I think we're badly mis-identifying the problem.
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A lot of Silicon Valley is lulled thinking there are no bad actors in the world. They design Minimum Viable Products. Then, for example, the Assad regime starts dropping mortar shells on people having Internet chats. Or massive data is harvested to change the fate of the world.
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Few people cared until Trump. This is easily provable. I predict most of what’s going on will continue under the radar. Regarding 2012:pic.twitter.com/DcH3hglZCD
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Description of using one million signups to gather data on virtually everyone on Facebook, before the 2015 API update to the more restrictive V2. Video should start ahead at the relevant spot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGiiQUMaShw&t=19m48s …
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In 2012 this was difficult enough on its own at scale. Sounds like they were happy with the contact and relationship connections data, and weren’t going into the really creepy side of things yet that the CA whistleblower talks about.
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I’m not sure i agree with this. I think CA began as an oppo research group that somehow seemingly got their hands on the perfect data driven algorithmic weapon right after Snowden stole millions of NSA files. I’m suspicious and wonder if CA had something to do with Snowden...
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no reason to think there aren't lots of CAs out there doing other Bad Things. In fact, we may come to see them as relatively incompetent and benign compared to their cohort.
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Isn't part of the problem, though, that billions of people are willing to offer their personal data up freely, in return for "free" services like these? There are certainly abuses. esp. given that services we pay for also sell & manipulate our data. But what's the balance?
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Could a lefty have done the same thing a tilt the scales for Clinton or Sanders if they wanted?
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The OP may disagree, but I see the Bad Thing not as swaying the election, but in narrowcasting outrageous content to those who CA thought might be susceptible to it. My intuition is that their psychographics are pseudoscience. But what they did with those theories was Big and Bad
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Zuckerman = Icarus.
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