Sentences with phrase «obtain voter data»
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said Wednesday.
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Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.
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Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.
As of November 7, more Republican - affiliated Pennsylvania voters had cast early ballots than Democratic voters, according to TargetSmart voter file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Data Analytics Lab.
This was a year after University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan first obtained the data and around the same time that Cambridge Analytica, which was co-founded by Steve Bannon, sought out voter data with financial support from the Trump campaign.
Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles
Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.
Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.
As is now famous, the company harvested the Facebook data of 50 million Americans that it obtained via a third - party app, and used it to target voters.
No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.
The latest allegations — that a Trump campaign consulting firm with Russian connections used improperly obtained Facebook data on tens of millions of Americans to target voters — raise disturbing questions about the roles of both Facebook and Russia.
It stands accused of harvesting Facebook user data to profile voters that that were ultimately targeted by the Trump campaign, which spent over $ 6 million on information obtained by the firm.
No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles
The tipping point appears to have been the recent revelation that a voter - profiling outfit working with the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, had obtained data on up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.
Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the US and the UK for the way it obtained as many as 87 million users» data from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the US and the Brexit referendum in the UK.
Following reports that a data analytics firm that worked with President Trump's campaign obtained Facebook data about millions of U.S. voters without their authorization, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are seeking answers from the social media giant and questioning what effect the firm's use of the data may have had on the 2016 campaign.
On this week's If Then, Slate's April Glaser and Will Oremus dissect the latest fallout from the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, wherein the profile data of more than 50 million Facebook users was obtained and allegedly used by Donald Trump's online voter - targeting firm.
Mr. Sanni is friends with Christopher Wylie, a former research director of Cambridge Analytica who has recently provided information to journalists indicating that the company improperly obtained the data of 50 million Facebook users in order to help target voters.
The Times and The Guardian revealed that the data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data on as many as 50 million Facebook users while developing software designed to influence voters.
The company has been under a lot of pressure to be more wary of it handles people's personal data ever since reports from The New York Times and The Guardian revealed that data analytics company Cambridge Analytics had improperly obtained and used the data from 50 million Facebook users to influence voters» decisions during the 2016 presidential election.
Over the weekend, the New York Times and The Observer of London posted a blockbuster investigative piece revealing that Cambridge Analytica, the firm brought on by the Trump campaign to target voters online, used the data of tens of millions of people obtained from Facebook without proper disclosures or permission.
Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign.
The documents proved that the firm, where the former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon was a board member, used data improperly obtained from Facebook to build voter profiles.
Facebook is proposing only narrow countermeasures that address the specifics of the furor over Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that's accused of improperly obtaining data from some 50 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing voters.
Last week, it turned out that the personal information of about 50 million Facebook users had been obtained without their consent or permission by data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which allegedly worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Brexit campaign, with an eye to creating a mechanism that would allow it to predict and influence voters» behavior.
While the exact nature of their role remains somewhat mysterious, Facebook's disclosure suggests that the company improperly obtained user data that could have given it an unfair advantage in reaching voters.
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political...
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic...
This weekend, while Facebook was quibbling about whether the information used by Cambridge Analytica to target voters in the lead up to the 2016 election was obtained in a data «breach» or somehow using fraudulent means, I decided to check my privacy settings.
Over the weekend, the New York Times and The Observer of London posted a blockbuster investigative piece revealing that Cambridge Analytica, the firm brought on by the Trump campaign to target voters online, used the data of tens of millions of people obtained from Facebook without proper disclosures...