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.
That information was then used by Cambridge Analytica to
build psychological profiles of voters in the United States and others.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 application
built psychological profiles of people using their Facebook data, which could then be used in personalized political messages aimed at potential
voters.
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.