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David Carroll 🦅
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A fresh look at the fresh hell inside of Facebook as it lurches from scandal to scandal. wired.com/story/facebook…
Disappointing that Cambridge Analytica’s unlawful conduct still gets papered over in these various recapitulations. The findings of ICO to Parliament rarely ever get mentioned in the press. THEY BROKE UK LAW IN THE US ELECTIONS.
—wired.com/story/one-mans…
—ico.org.uk/action-weve-ta…
Speculation over whether Cambridge Analytica was effective is a fool’s errand. There are no data nor control groups to prove anything either way. Why do folks take that bait when the real debate is whether it was lawful or not? The real story is how they may get away with it.
Here’s a rare article from March 2018 that actually characterized Cambridge Analytica accurately as a military-grade PSYOPs shop for plutocrats that got into Big Data and Facebook targeting while flouting the law. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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David Carroll 🦅
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🇺🇸Facebook violated its FTC Consent Decree
🇬🇧Facebook broke UK law
🇨🇦Facebook broke Canadian law
#CambridgeAnalytica
Report details use of Faceboon Custom Audiences. This is crucial. It means illegal data models harvested from Facebook data were used to build user lists that were uploaded back into Facebook. This loop of data abuse has not been explained by the press! priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions…
According to the timeline in the report, we can see that Kogan misled Facebook about selling academic data to SCL, Nix misled Facebook about deleting the data, and Facebook used its usual excuse that it’s too big to be regulated or regulate itself. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions…
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David Carroll 🦅
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Cambridge Analytica had legal exposure of £43.5 billion under UK Data Protection Act of 1998. A £5000 claim for each of the 87 million victims of unlawful political profiling. They folded before it could be proven in court.
(That’s even discounting the figure to only 10% of the 87 million who might conceivably pursue a claim if they could have and £5000 is the bottom-range of fines, so this estimate is actually conservative!)
Big picture: An FTC fine less than $50 billion is a joke given that Facebook aided and abetted the unlawful political profiling of all US registered voters on UK soil in violation of their laws.
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David Carroll 🦅
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I think about this a lot. Moreso lately. RE: Feb 2018 debate over Nunes release of FISA memo Trey Gowdy brings up Cambridge Analytica as a basis for the Mueller probe. Another reason to wonder if redacted Referral #1 is “Cambridge Analytica”? cbsnews.com/news/transcrip…
I noticed that this narrative about Campaign Strategy on WikiLeaks from Vol I repeats in Vol II except there are additional details especially footnote 30 which refers to Bannon’s FBI interview. Bannon was Cambridge Analytica VP during outreach to WL. thedailybeast.com/trump-data-gur…
However, using Acrobat’s Edit PDF feature I matched the font and Assange fits underneath the redaction while Cambridge Analytica does not. So there’s that. (h/t @DeniseWurl)
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