(Incidentally, the UK's data
protection watchdog is conducting
just such an
audit of Cambridge Analytica right now, after obtaining a warrant to enter its London offices last month — as part of an ongoing, year - long investigation into social media data being used for political ad targeting.)
The whole issues of contract
protection for authors centers on
audit - ability... yet we're
just supposed to trust Amazon's figures because we don't, in fact, have a contract with them?