Sentences with phrase «u.s. voter profiles»

The firm is now at the center of reports that it exploited Facebook data and harvested millions of U.S. voter profiles without user authorization during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

The company has said its «psychometric profiles» could predict the personality and political leanings of most U.S. voters.

(CNN)-- Three weeks before voters choose a new U.S. senator in Massachusetts, the rival candidates made their first high profile attempt to discredit each other in a televised debate Wednesday.

The company has said its «psychometric profiles» could predict the personality and political leanings of most U.S. voters.

Election victories in New York by President Obama, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Representatives Bill Owens & Louise Slaughter, House candidates Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei and five high - profile State Senate candidates sent a clear message this week that New York voters want to stop special deals for the wealthy, invest for the future and protect important programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from harsh cuts.

Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have harvested the private data of 50 million U.S. Facebook users without their consent in an effort to build psychographic profiles meant to influence voters» decisions.

The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

Cambridge Analytica's trophy product is «psychographic profiles» of every potential voter in the U.S. interwoven with more conventional political data.

The company has said its «psychometric profiles» could predict the personality and political leanings of most U.S. voters.

Zuckerberg on Wednesday promised tougher steps to restrict developers» access to user information, his first response to allegations that London - based Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed data to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016.

A loophole allowed a prominent data analytics firm that worked with President Trump's campaign exploit user data to harvest 50 million profiles of U.S. voters without their permission, according to a whistleblower who once worked to help acquire the data.

The Guardian is reporting that Cambridge Analytica used personal information from Facebook profiles of millions of U.S. voters without permission.

The data firm started partnering with U.S. political campaigns around 2015 with the promise that it had the ability to do what it called «psychographic» targeting, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level, according to Cambridge Analytica's website.

About 30 million of those profiles, mostly of U.S. voters, contained enough information to connect them to other data sources and build detailed profiles.

tech.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader umafuckit shared this article from The Guardian: The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of U.S. voters, in one of the tech giant's biggest ever data breaches, and used them to bu...

The company is facing multiple privacy investigations in the U.S. and U.K. over the leak of personal information pertaining to as many as 60 million Facebook users to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).

Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada continue to spring into action to try and unravel the events that led to the personal information of as many as 60 million Facebook users leaking to a voter - profiling firm (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).

Florida voters need to get ready for a high - profile, contentious election that could produce a big win in the U.S. Senate for either the Democrats or the Republicans.

The company is facing multiple privacy investigations in the U.S. and U.K. over the leak of personal information pertaining to 60 million Facebook users to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).

Kogan, however, passed this data to Cambridge Analytica which allowed it to create psychological profiles of over 50 million U.S. voters thereby allowing them to manipulate their votes.

Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada continue to spring into action to try and unravel the events that led to the personal information for upwards of 60 million Facebook users leaking to a voter - profiling firm (see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback).