Sentences with phrase «nix saying his data»

Channel 4 News broadcast clips Tuesday that also show Nix saying his data - mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections.

Channel 4 News broadcast clips Tuesday that also show Nix saying his data - mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections.

Channel 4 News broadcast clips Tuesday that show Nix saying his data - mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.»

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica's CEO, Alexander Nix, who has been suspended pending an investigation, assured the Cruz campaign that it acquired all the data ethically and legally, Tyler said.

Schroepfer also confirmed this agreement was signed with Kogan in June 2016, and said the «core commitments» were to confirm the deletion of data from himself and three others Kogan had passed it to: Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix; Wylie, for a company he had set up after leaving Cambridge Analytica; and Dr Michael Inzlicht from the Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience (Kogan mentioned to the committee earlier this week he had also passed some of the Facebook data to a fellow academic in Canada).

Though it has said that the acting CEO, Dr Alexander Taylor, who took over from Nix last month has returned to his former role as chief data officer.

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Wylie said that Bannon and Nix first met in 2013, the same year that Wylie — a young data whiz with some political experience in Britain and Canada — was working for SCL Group.

«Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data - driven,» says Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix

On the same day, a then little - known British company based in London sent out a press release: «We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data - driven communication has played such an integral part in President - elect Trump's extraordinary win,» Alexander James Ashburner Nix was quoted as saying.

«We gave them data, that's indisputable,» Kogan said in response to Nix's prior suggestion that he had never obtained Facebook - linked information from his company.

After being kicked off Facebook, Cambridge Analytica suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, and said it would launch an independent investigation into the allegations of data misuse.

Mr. Collins, the British lawmaker, said he planned to call Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, to return to Parliament and answer questions about testimony last month in which he claimed that the company never obtained or used Facebook data.

Nix said the firm handled «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting» and said Cambridge used emails with a «self - destruct timer» to make its role more difficult to trace.

Nixed: Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said it suspended CEO Alexander Nix after undercover videos showed Nix saying he could entrap politicians with bribes and women.

Wylie said that it was under Nix's direction — but with the knowledge of Bannon and Rebekah Mercer — that Cambridge Analytica began an ambitious data - gathering program that included tapping into the Facebook profiles of 50 million users through the use of a personality - testing app.

Yet when Donald Trump nixed a rule that required exactly that — a requirement that mental health data be part of a national database to screen gun buyers — John Faso said absolutely nothing.

Wylie said that Bannon and Nix first met in 2013, the same year that Wylie — a young data whiz with some political experience in Britain and Canada — was working for SCL Group.

Alexander Nix - who has now been suspended by the firm - says he met the now - president «many times» and his company's data «informed all the strategy».

He said the revelations that CA harvested data from 50 million Facebook accounts meant Nix had «deliberately misled the committee and Parliament» by saying CA does not engage in such activities.

Nix, who serves as Cambridge's chief executive, said that none of the information the company collects is «particularly intrusive,» adding that SCL's data - science techniques were predominantly developed in the political space, not for military clients.

Collins, the chair of the Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said he would be recalling Nix to give further testimony to explain why he had told MPs last month that his company had not received data from Facebook.

There is an interesting slippage in the presentation between Nix saying that hundreds of thousands of people have filled out Cambridge Analytica's questionnaires and his claiming they have this amount of data on every American adult.

That said, it does appear Wylie can prove that Cambridge Analytica's CEO Alexander Nix was lying or misinformed when he told British MP's that his company hadn't harvested or used Facebook user data in its election work, and given the tougher privacy laws across the pond this is serious indeed.

Nix said Cambridge Analytica handled «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting» for the Trump campaign, and used emails with a «self - destruct timer» to make the firm's role more difficult to trace.

It is «intuitive» that the more such data is collected, the better his company can be in predicting how people will vote, Nix said.

Wylie said that it was under Nix's direction — but with the knowledge of Bannon and Rebekah Mercer — that Cambridge Analytica began an ambitious data - gathering program that included tapping into the Facebook profiles of 50 million users through the use of a personality - testing app.

In February 2018, Nix appeared before the Culture Media and Sport select committee in the House of Commons in London and said: «We don't work with Facebook data, we don't have Facebook data.»

«We've never worked in Russia,» said Mr. Nix, head of a data consulting firm that advised the Trump campaign on targeting voters.

Partly because of «the power of big data and psychographics,» Cruz rose from 5 percent to 35 percent in the polls, Nix said in his speech, which he delivered at the Concordia summit, a New York City gathering of government, business and nonprofit leaders.

While Mr. Nix has told lawmakers that the company does not have Facebook data, a former employee said that he had recently seen hundreds of gigabytes on Cambridge servers, and that the files were not encrypted.

Nix says on the tape CA did all the research, got all the data, did all the analytics, all the targeting.

«We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data - driven communications played such an integral part in President - elect Donald Trump's extraordinary win,» Nix said in a Nov. 9, 2016, news release.

Cambridge Analytica, whose CEO Alexander Nix said in a February parliamentary hearing that his firm did not work with Facebook data, released a statement on Saturday contradicting that, but claimed the company had deleted the GSR - obtained social network information after it had learned that the information violated Facebook's term of service.

«We can use «big data» to understand exactly what messages each specific group within a target audience need to hear,» Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, said at a marketing conference last year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Wylie said Bannon» approved the data - collection scheme we were proposing» and even had authority over the company's CEO Alexander Nix.

Nix boasted that they were the propaganda arm for Trump, saying, «We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign, and our data informed all the strategy.»

Referring to a series of unsavoury claims made by Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix to an undercover reporter for Channel 4 News, Prasad said, «Would the Congress now depend on data manipulation and theft to woo the voters?

Asked by the committee about Nix's earlier, contradicting testimony, Wylie wondered out loud why CA spent «the better part of $ 1M on GSR» — pointing also to «copious amounts of email» and other documents he says he has provided to the committee as additional evidence, including invoicing and «match rates on the data».

«We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy,» says Nix, whose company is being investigated by British officials for its handling of personal data.

Nix said during the Cruz campaign that it had five or six sources of data on each voter.

Mr Nix said that the data analytics his firm used in the Trump campaign were also widely used in President Obama's election campaign and that Hillary Clinton also employed «hundreds of data scientists».

This data was then used, as Nix said, to create «individualised targeted and engagement ads».

The committee also says it has fresh questions for Alexander Nix in light of revelations that hit the headlines at the weekend about how a researcher's app was used to gather personal information on about 270,000 Facebookers and 50 million of their friends, back in 2015 — data that was passed to CA in violation of Facebook's policies.

Last month, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, told Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that his firm had received no data from GSR, in what now appear to be false statements, says MP Damian Collins, who heads the committee.