They covered up Cambridge Analytica until forced to confront it because it was a GOP donor funded op.
They covered up Putin’s op because “company before country”
They do cover ups because they get away with it. There is no accountability. There is only public relations.
We are reminded of a factual error in the book #AnUgluTruth: Facebook learned about Cambridge Analytica before the Guardian report. This is public knowledge sourced from the Washington DC AG’s lawsuit against FB RE: CA.
Unfortunately the book market does not want a book that corrects the record on CA/SCL, challenging the orthodoxy’s narrative that FB didn’t know (false), that data wasn’t sold (false), why FB hired Kogan’s partner in deceptive data harvesting, how UK ICO failed its forensics, etc
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Redactions newly revealed in this thread. Manafort’s lies about KILIMNICK ran much deeper than previously known. Incredible abuse to have pardoned the henchmen. Failures of Mueller, distortions by Barr, and cowardice of Senate Rs leading us down the path toward the insurrection.
“No collusion” but Manafort appears to have conspired with Putin’s spy to share voter data, campaign strategy, and Ukraine policy and lied about it, and was pardoned for lying about it.
In hindsight, Barr was diabolical in his redactions of the Mueller Report. Delay in getting redactions revealed by court allowed public and especially press to mistake the collusion question as resolved. Concealing the Cambridge Analytica question was a part of this clever scheme
Cryptocriminology: “Last year was a banner year for ransomware groups, according to a task-force of security experts and law enforcement agencies which estimated that victims paid about $350 million in ransom last year, a 311% increase over 2019.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Thread on the criminality-at-scale intrinsically enabled by decentralized finance and digital currencies easily corrupted despite a religious belief in maths.
☑️Right to Know, Transfer, Delete
☑️Right to sue
☑️Duty of care
☑️Cambridge Analytica Bankruptcy loophole closed
☑️anti-Algorithmic bias
☑️Data broker registry
☑️unambiguous, fair-and-square opt-in, revocable, anti-dark pattern, anti-discriminatory consent UX requirements
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New York needs to lead the nation,
set the highest standards, and strive for GDPR adequacy to maintain lawful and protected flows of data internationally. Splinternet is the alternative so tech lobbyists *must* support #NewYorkPrivacyAct to prove they’re serious about adequacy.
If 4% of iOS users are *NOT* blocking cross-app data tracking then the whole adtech economy ought to collapse because it is so obviously fraudulent. It does not measure anything of aggregate value anymore because it is no longer representative of anything terribly meaningful.
(Deleted a mangled and typo’d tweet. There is a clear and present use case for an edit button. That’s the thing even though it’s also a ridiculous information veracity UX conundrum.)
Marketers: Consumers who install adblockers are our most savvy and desirable target audiences because we know they are real humans who reject ads rather than scammers cheating ad networks at scale with automated fraud.
Love how marketing and tech types criticize Apple for running its company like a business. They seem to mistake Tim Cook as the chair of the FTC.
“Random anonymous unregulated third-party vendors ought to be able to collect and transact data covertly and opaquely but Apple has its own profits and shareholder value in mind! What gives?”
Marketing and tech people literally cannot get their head around the notion that Apple does not need to mine personal data to make obscene profits. They seem to have forgotten how businesses models work otherwise.
It’s a good thing adtech collects and breaches everyone’s personal data at scale so that advertisers can pretend they are not wasting their advertising budgets. Oh wait… wsj.com/articles/marke…
So adtech fraud consultant is a booming career path because the industry is a dumpster fire and I do regret not developing an elective course on deep adtech forensics at this juncture.
The ad industry and its enablers in big tech argue to lawmakers that personal data extraction and exploitation is the engine of the economy. The problem is we do not know how much is fraudulent. Of that, we don’t know how much ad money is diverted into organized crime.