Not exact matches
The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic
manipulation for those with access to
big data.
Big news on the Democratic
data - driven field organizing front: NGPVAN, long a provider of political
data - management /
manipulation tools, has bought NationalField, which builds tools for managing field staff and volunteers.
Even in more stable, developed countries,
big -
data technologies can potentially be used for discrimination and
manipulation, argued Jeramie Scott, national security counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
The French - born 32 - year - old former head Mt. Gox, once the world's
biggest Bitcoin exchange, faces embezzlement and
data manipulation charges owing to the loss of 650,000 Bitcoins.
Of course, as mentioned above, the
biggest difference between the mining and
manipulation of Facebook users»
data by the Obama campaign and the Trump campaign has nothing to do with either campaign and everything to do with Facebook.
That psychological warfare tool was a complex
data - mining / analysis /
manipulation program used «to bring
big data and social media to an established military methodology — «information operations» — then turn it on the US electorate,» according to Wylie's interview with The Guardian.
Highly analytical and process - oriented
data analyst with in - depth knowledge of database types; research methodologies; and
big data capture, curation,
manipulation and visualization.