“The ICO was astounded by the amount of personal data stored by political parties.” (They’ve been conducting forensics on hundreds of terabytes from servers seized under criminal warrant.)
Jan-Mar 2017 filed Subject Access Request with SCL (Cambridge Analytica)
July 4, 2017 filed complaint with ICO
May 5, 2018 ICO issues enforcement order to SCL (Cambridge Analytica)
June 4, 2018 SCL fails to comply
July 11, 2018 ICO issues report announcing criminal prosecution
My lawyer @RaviNa1k to @issielapowsky on the news that @ICOnews is proceeding with criminal prosecution for failing to comply with enforcement order to fully disclose my voter profile data set as required by UK law. wired.com/story/uk-regul…
The interim #ICOReport investigation team has not yet completed the forensics to establish provenance and lineage of the data sources and models. Still fact-finding on scope and scale of ‘contamination’ ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Thanks to all of you who have been following this data quest from the beginning. Your support has been essential in getting us here.
Important to note how both Facebook and AggregateIQ attempted jurisdictionally evasive maneuvers with the cop on the data crimes beat. #ICOReport#CambridgeAnalytica
Worth noting that this #ICOReport is essentially non-partisan given that a Remain campaign UK DPA violation may have been snagged in the dragnet.
OK folks now dig into the second #ICOReport released today “Democracy disrupted? Personal information and political influence” ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Social media as a means to bypass the legacy infrastructure (and its guardrails and norms) to manage “marginal gains” — sound familiar?
The ICO asked all UK parties with seats in the House of Commons to document their data practices. Only UKIP refused and the dispute went to the tribunal where it was dismissed, its appeal decried as “inaccurate” ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Wow. ICO basically saying once your data is attached to your voter registration then predictions are considered fair game for full disclosure. This is a big win for us.🥂
Keep hammering on Facebook Custom Audiences. It’s where the rubber hits the road. We still don’t know extent of tainted data being uploaded to Facebook Custom Audiences, as data models get forensically deconstructed.
Seems to me that Facebook failed to build any means to detect abuse of Custom Audiences. It’s a reckless feature and if Zuck had any integrity, he’d order a moratorium on it, for ethics review at minimum. #ICOReport
Remember that Cambridge Analytica (SCL Elections Ltd) bought data from at least Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup. So pretargeted enriched matched voter files up uploaded into Facebook for another round of data matching PII to data brokers? techcrunch.com/2018/06/06/cam…
OK we’re getting to the part where Facebook gets eviscerated for its dark patterned privacy “controls” and genuine faux transparency
ICO calls for an “ethical pause” (shortly after commanding Facebook to stand-down to issue a criminal warrant to seize servers.) Will this industry respect their regulator’s urgent call for a moratorium recognizing the new threat models of digital campaigns?
ICYMI that fateful day in March 2017 when I tweeted my Cambridge Analytica data request in a consequential thread. Now it’s been officially recognized as an inadequate response. Criminal prosecution is up next.
The limits of owning your own infra to seize the means of production come down to who is keeping the bare metal alive on the rack.
Of course only a relatively small portion of the #fediverse is affected by this particular outage. The major servers are “unperturbed” and folks might have to notice that certain accounts aren’t active right now if they weren’t aware of this cluster outage on our host’s host.
This outage should be brief as OVH is on it. Feels like a small price to pay for the general ease-of-use afforded, otherwise. We also enjoy the GDPR by hosting in France. All technical choices made for building an alternate social media autonomy are essentially political.
Remarkable growth for an otherwise obscure open source decentralized platform with a singular appeal that Elon Musk cannot control it. These charts show the steep sudden growth of new Mastodon servers appearing to absorb the exodus precipitated by his takeover.
These charts don’t capture the astonishing brain drain, however. Until you make the effort to go see who has discovered another way, it’s hard to grasp why this place feels so suddenly different.
No longer have confidence that I could earn big engagement on this hellsite anymore. As of this tweet, the toot below was accumulating almost 300 boosts (retweets) and favourites (non-algorithmic likes). That kind of engagement costs money on here now. federate.social/@profcarroll/1…
💫Nerd Alert: Learned how to resolve my mastodon server issues and will be opening up federate.social for a new cohort of applicants today. Hoping to attract 50% newbies and 50% folks looking to jump off of a chaotic crowded big instance. Stay tuned. #GetFederated
Why join my #fediverse instance?
⛔️I’ve already blocked (defederated) several nasty servers for troll-free trust and safety.
🆘I respond to reports and enforce the clearly posted rules.
👨🏻💻Guidance and support learning a new way to do social media.
🌐A more focused federated feed
Things to consider:
💸If you plan on bringing a large follower base along, are you willing to chip in on computing costs? Say $8/mo?
📦When you move instances/servers, you leave your posts behind but you take your followers with you because it forwards on. I’ll walk you thru it.
OK I’ve seen enough from this poll. Let’s experiment with the #Fediverse together. Applications to join my new mastodon instance are now open. federate.social
Already have small core of familiars posting comparable content #OnThere at a steady clip along with all new voices I’ve never met before. I’ve been playing around for a weekend and already my notifications for masto have overtaken my twitter notifs. You have to work at it tho.
I know it’s sad to let go and endure sudden change. So many of us have invested so much of our life #OnHere. The problem for us is that it was always for sale. Even if it’s messy, masto is not for sale. Right now, and for what it’s worth, that’s a feature. Not a bug.