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Here Nix, MD of Cambridge Analytica, states that they have four to five thousand data points for EVERY adult in the US!



Whatever GDPR does, it will not be soon enough, and the USA should implement similar legislation.
And here, from @guardian : ex Cambridge Analytica employee goes into detail:

theguardian.com/news/video/201…

Put simply: lies to brainwash the US voter.

That is how Trump got in.

And doing the same to the UK voter made Brexit win.

This is game over for @Facebook and @CamAnalytica
thisisyourdigitallife is the App that harvested data from Facebook users, under the pretext of 'academic research'.

theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…

This is effectively a data breach of enormous proportions, that led to the manipulation of voters to get Trump elected.
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1. There are some who think that Parliament would never allow the UK to crash out of the EU without a deal.
2. There are others who think that the UK will crash out with no deal, but it will be o.k., because very quickly the UK will go back to the EU with a begging bowl, and Brexit In Name Only, or Brino, will be drafted up super quick and agreed to.
3. This won't happen, because this craven set of Brexit politicians cannot listen to reason, and all they will do is blame the EU for their own stupidity when the EU refuses their conflicting irrational demands, such as leaving a club, but still keeping the value of membership.
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This is a good question: what is the root cause of the lack of privacy online today? Why does media track so much? My personal take is that it boils down to browsers and mobile platforms. Not only is that the master fix, but it is within reach. Follow the thread❗👇
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Facebook is confronting EU users a new “terms of service” dialogue that denies access until a user opt-ins to tracking for ad targeting, and various other data processing purposes...
These Terms refer to the “data policy” that says “we use the information we have about you – including information about your interests, actions and connections – to select and personalise ads, offers and other sponsored content that we show you.”
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Here is is. The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook contract. Denied by Facebook. Denied by Cambridge Analytica. Leaked by @chrisinsilico. And published today by @DamianCollins as part of UK parliament's fake news inquiry.
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