Sentences with phrase «data during political campaigning»

The commissioner emphasized that Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are only one part of their investigation, which involves 30 organizations and was started with the intent of explaining to the public what happens to their personal data during political campaigning.

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This was Mr. Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress, prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested the data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters during the 2016 election.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

Earlier this month, Facebook said it would turn over data on some 3,000 ads purchased by a Russian entity that appeared to inflame political divisions during the campaign.

Founder of the consulting firm Clarity Campaign Labs and an alum of the National Committee for an Effective Congress, Bonier drew wide notice in the Democratic coalition during 2014 for helping scale down the party's data tools for use in ground - level political campaigns, including congressional and state legislative races.

At HEAF, we've had students expand their critical thinking skills by rewriting the endings to well - known stories; publishing their writing on a student blog; conducting research as they learned to collect, analyze and report on data; engaging in civics and current events by running their own political campaigns during election time; and planning and producing their own films on class topics.

The data was allegedly used to create psychological profiles of Facebook users, which were then used to create targeted political campaigns during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as well as the Brexit campaign.

The non-compliance of Facebook with European data protection laws was in the spotlight yesterday, during an oral hearing in front of the UK parliamentary committee that's looking into the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data misuse scandal — as part of a wider enquiry into online disinformation and political campaigning.

According to the post, University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan passed data obtained from a «personality prediction» app (thisisyourdigitallife) to Cambridge Analytica and others for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

In the wake of the revelations that Trump campaign consultants Cambridge Analytica used data from 50 million Facebook users to target digital political advertising during the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has lost billions in stock market value, governments on both sides of the Atlantic have opened investigations, and a nascent social movement is calling on users to #DeleteFacebook.

That data was then given to a firm called Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that counted Donald Trump's presidential campaign among its clients, which used the information to understand what would hit emotional buttons during the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook was already in trouble with its users following revelations that Cambridge Analytica used misappropriated user data to target political ads during the 2016 election campaign.

Over the past two weeks, those practices have caused an uproar internationally over the compromise of data belonging to at least 50 million users at the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump campaign and simultaneously aided one «Leave» campaign during the UK's 2016 EU referendum.

The company may have wanted the data to create psychological profiles that could be used to target voters during political campaigns.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based consultancy gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

Last month a former Cambridge Analytica (CA) employee, Chris Wylie, told a UK parliamentary committee that the London - based company, deeply embedded in the ongoing data mining scandal, had potentially shared some of its Facebook harvested data with the Canadian AggregateIQ consultancy, which is accused of targeting social media users for political campaigns — including during the 2016 US election and the UK's Brexit campaign.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based data mining firm gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Schroepfer revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

During the 2016 election campaign, it had approached political parties in the country to set up «the most sophisticated political research and data hub» besides developing a mobile app and undertaking several kinds of research services.

One political micro-targetting expert interviewed by The Verge questioned whether knowing a voter's mindset based on Facebook «likes» could really have a dramatic influence amid the «overwhelming wave of data going into people's head» during a political campaign.

Moreover, it maintains that the data was not used in its political campaigning during the 2016 US presidential election.

The firm reportedly worked for multiple political campaigns, including for President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, and gathered data from social media accounts to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of voters.

The development comes shortly after the company was hit with a number of other privacy - related lawsuits following a widely reported scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica which harvested data of some 50 million Facebook users in 2014, having been accused by a whistleblower of leveraging that information to assist the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election in the U.S..