Sentences with phrase «build psychological profiles»

Wylie says the firm sought Facebook information in order to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

Former Cambridge Analytica employee - turned - whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the firm sought Facebook information to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

Wylie told news outlets that the company, which worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, used the data to build psychological profiles so voters could be targeted with ads and stories.

Cambridge Analytica, whose clients have included Donald Trump's presidential campaign, reportedly used the data of 50 million Facebook customers without permission to build psychological profiles so voters could be targeted with ads and stories.

When asked if the Commission is concerned over allegations of data being harvested to build psychological profiles of voters to influence them, Rawat said, «Definitely.

Former Cambridge Analytica employee Chris Wylie said that the company obtained information from 50 million Facebook users, using it to build psychological profiles so voters could be targeted with ads and stories.

All of this data was forwarded to Cambridge Analytica, which rolled it up with data from other sources to build psychological profiles of potential voters.

The firm, which worked on the Trump presidential campaign in 2016, paid 270,000 users to participate in a 2014 personality survey to help the firm build psychological profiles.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

«Cambridge Analytica deliberately misled Facebook users so it could build psychological profiles of the user and their friends, and Facebook did not stop it,» Cook County State's Attorney Kimberly Foxx said in the statement to the Tribune.

That information was then used by Cambridge Analytica to build psychological profiles of voters in the United States and others.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

The firm sought information on Facebook to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

Cambridge Analytica sought information on Facebook to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London - based employee of the big data firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas — worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.

In a blog post that went up late Friday night, Facebook explained that a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which asked users to answer questions to build a psychological profile.

Wylie alleged the data was first collected by Aleksandr Kogan through an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which asked users to answer questions to build a psychological profile.

The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London - based employee of the big data firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas — worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.

The upcoming hearing comes in response to a controversy with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that aided Trump and other Republican political candidates by building psychological profiles of voters.

The application built psychological profiles of people using their Facebook data, which could then be used in personalized political messages aimed at potential voters.

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It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists building Cambridge's psychological profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app, NYT reports.

The Guardian alleged that Cruz's campaign contracted - out the creation of «detailed psychological profiles about the U.S. electorate, using a massive pool of mainly unwitting U.S. Facebook users, built with an online survey.»

The company said it was «building a way» for people to know if their data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological - profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people to take part in.

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

The newspaper reported that the Ted Cruz campaign had paid UK academics to gather psychological profiles about the US electorate using «a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey».

It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists building Cambridge's psychological profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app — a mobile - phone - based personality quiz — to gain access to Facebook users» friend networks, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

Researchers can envisage a game that builds a detailed psychological and social profile of a player, from both their in - game actions and online footprint — but there's still a gap between this, and the horror game posited in Black Mirror, which performs an invasive neurological hack on the player.

This was the foundation of everything it did next — how it extracted psychological insights from the «seeders» and then built an algorithm to profile millions more.

Cambridge Analytica has quickly grown into one of the world's leading political data firms, using psychological profiling to build award winning behavioral microtargeting tools for political and commercial marketing campaigns globally.

It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists building Cambridge's psychological profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app — a mobile - phone - based personality quiz — to gain access to Facebook users» friend networks, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

Where conventional political advertising uses crude demographic factors like age and ZIP code to target advertising, Cambridge supposedly used a technique called psychographics, which involves building a detailed psychological profile of a user that will allow a campaign to predict exactly what kind of appeal will be most likely to convince any particular voter.

Cambridge Analytica was also linked to President Trump's campaign during 2016 and had used the data to build psychological voter profiles ahead of the election.

The company said it was «building a way» for people to know if their data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological - profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people to take part in.

They then used the information to build political and psychological profiles, in order to create targeted messages for voters.