Sentences with phrase «of voter data»

«I believe the people that will be able to fully dive into it and see everything — such as law enforcement agencies and regulators — will see a very clear roadmap to weaponization of voter data, commercial data and how incredibly influential this can be when it's made into a weaponized format and automated,» he said.

Cambridge Analytica's strategy involves the mass harvesting and analysis of voter data.

Though some current clients say they believe Cambridge Analytica's core data product is of a high caliber and can be applied to ad targeting to produce better results than other types of voter data models, others who have met with or worked with the firm say they were not impressed with Cambridge's data product, and called it too expensive.

And reportedly, their use of voter data is also superior, certainly to that of the GOP, who basically gave up and started using the Koch info.

The Trump campaign had rejected early overtures to hire Cambridge Analytica, and Trump himself said in May 2016 that he «always felt» that the use of voter data was «overrated.»

For example, a national voter file popped up on a bare IP number late in 2015, and a huge trove of voter data sat out in the open for two weeks in June of this year.

One of my clients saw a 10x increase in monthly costs, up to $ 633 / mo, because of a voter data import.

The Trump campaign had rejected early overtures to hire Cambridge Analytica, and Trump himself said in May 2016 that he «always felt» that the use of voter data was «overrated.»

Not exact matches

Democratic preference in both polls was slightly above data site 538's polling aggregator, which on Sunday showed that 48.5 % of voters who said they would support a generic Democratic candidate in 2018, compared to 37.6 % who preferred a generic Republican.

The app cut ties with Cambridge Analytica in Mexico after the British company was accused by a whistleblower of improperly accessing data to target US and British voters in recent elections.

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.

In March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

As recently as late June, just 55 % of Sanders voters said they would vote for Clinton; recent polling data shows just 41 % of young voters are supporting Clinton.

Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.

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.

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

Cook's and Musk's comments follow The New York Times and The Observer of London's report that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company launched by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, collected users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

That scandal involved how the data of 87 million Facebook users was scraped and used as a psychological weapon to target voters.

But with so much data for a campaign to sift through, «you can't go through 30,000 points of data and go: «Did you acquire this piece of data on this voter ethically?»»

Its roots lie in the 2002 establishment of computerized statewide voter registration lists, but things really took off after the data - driven 2008 victory of Barack Obama.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed «was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»

The information did not include highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much of it was publicly available voter - registration data provided by state government officials, a company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON — Under fire for his connections to a voter - targeting firm that used data taken from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz insisted Tuesday that he was unaware of any impropriety.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

The global firestorm over allegations that the British company Cambridge Analytica was able to download reams of personal data from Facebook to create detailed profiles of voters continues to rage.

Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook data to help build tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

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.

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.

The data collected by the app reportedly was shared with Cambridge Analytica and used to help the firm build profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to better target advertising to them.

«The closing of Cambridge Analytica doesn't stop the problem that voters and consumers face in terms of a growing loss of privacy and a gross misuse of their data,» said Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy.»

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.

Through utilizing their vast troves of existing data on individual voters, constructing highly advanced data models, and prioritizing voters by their likelihood to vote and feelings of favorability towards each candidate, Cambridge Analytica created a unique «principal audience» of voters to target.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

In doing this we used a suite of models produced by the data science team, which outlined profiles such as undecided voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to online cookies, mobile devices, and social IDs.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

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

A voter - profiling company was able to harvest data of 50 million Facebook profiles even though only about 270,000 users agreed to hand over their information.

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).

Earlier this week, a whistleblower claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and data analytics firm, had used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.

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.

We should sue Cambridge Analytica to take back control of our data from the company, which compiled complex profiles of 50 million Americans and used them to target voters.

LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters, a former employee of the data - science firm said Tuesday.