Sentences with phrase «harvesting psychological data»

The public backlash against Cambridge Analytica and Facebook centres on their practices of harvesting psychological data to influence political behaviour.

The company said it was doing it just for research purposes, but it actually harvested the psychological data from all the users and — with their permission — got access to some data on their Facebook friends.

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Almost 300,000 users were thought to have been paid to take the psychological test — with the app then harvesting their personal data.

Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.»

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

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 data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US 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.

Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.»

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.

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.

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.

British investigators on Friday night searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data - analytics company that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users to develop psychological profiles on behalf of political campaigns, including that of President Trump.

Because, while the debate right now seems to be about whether or not Team Trump was wrong to do what the Right has justly condemned Clinton and Obama for doing (and the only principled answer to that question is «yes») the real issue here is that Internet platforms — including most social media — routinely harvest data about users and aggregate that data to create startlingly accurate psychological profiles.

The company, which claims to harvest massive amounts of data to develop personality profiles and target voters» «unconscious psychological biases», has been swept up in an investigation by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).