Sentences with phrase «political campaign purposes»

What do the Equifax breach, Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook users» data for political campaign purposes and Grindr's sharing of users» HIV status have in common?

Musk's decision comes as users are abandoning Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, where it emerged that the startup had harvested 50 million users» data for political campaigning purposes.

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Using a personality profiling methodology, the company — formed by high - powered right - wing investors for just this purpose — began offering its profiling system to dozens of political campaigns.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

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.

Corporations, marketing firms, or political campaigns will only be approved if they disclose all purpose, use and affiliations utilizing the research.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

All IRC section 501 (c)(3) organizations, including churches and religious organizations, must abide by certain rules: ■ their net earnings may not inure to any private shareholder or individual, ■ they must not provide a substantial benefit to private interests, ■ they must not devote a substantial part of their activities to attempting to influence legislation, ■ they must not participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, and ■ the organization's purposes and activities may

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

For example, the similarity of today's collapse of traditional values to the challenge which the «front generation» of the 1920's (veterans of the trenches of World War I) made to all the traditions of state and culture that had held Europe together for so many years; or the comparison between Hitler's anti-semitism and the cynical use of racism for political purposes in the political campaigns of George Wallace and others; or the similarity between American actions in Indo - China and European imperialism in Africa at the turn - of.

Some political liberals, appalled at the liberation of monied interests to spend immense amounts on elections, support a convention for the purpose of overruling the Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United that declared unconstitutional most imitations on campaign finance.

According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

A member of a government reform group says it's OK if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo uses his campaign coffers to finance this week's trip to Israel if the visit is for political, rather than government purposes.

This campaign seems to have tapped into a real vein of frustration among Democrats / progressives, who tend to think that Republican officials have exploited 9/11 for political purposes, with the mainstream media's abetting.

Open Britain has emerged as a cross-party political force since the referendum, with the purpose of campaigning against a «hard, destructive Brexit».

But for all intents and purposes we're done here The most enthralling, important, divisive, but exciting political campaign this island has seen for generations is now over and the all important count can begin.

In 2010, they endorsed Joyce Johnson, a Seagram's exec with limited political experience, but they couldn't then endorse Charlie Rangel, whose use of rent - stabilized apartments for campaign purposes — a story that the Times uncovered — led to the longtime pol's censure in the House.

It should also be noted that the political fund does not need to be handed over to the Labour party, it simply needs to be used for political purposes, and this could conceivably be campaigning against Labour over unpopular policies through advertising or supporting independent Labour candidates.

This means that wealthy federal political candidates can use jointly - held assets for campaign purposes.

Unshackle Upstate recently argued in an anti-public campaign finance system white paper that using public funds for a political purpose would be unconstitutional.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

The first, filed by a city resident and a member of the Hartford City Council, alleged that Coleman improperly used his annual taxpayer - financed update for political purposes and his campaign against Wooden, which is not allowed under state statutes.

But it also served a dual political purpose: It jabbed at the tradition of mayoral control of New York City's schools, and it also allowed the governor to take an aggressive stand on the issue of educational equity — a marquee issue of Ms. Nixon, a longtime education activist who has placed the issue squarely at the heart of the early stages of her campaign.

«In the light of the above, you are advised to strictly adhere to Section 99 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), which stipulates that for the purpose of this Act, the period of campaigning in public by every political party shall commence 90 days before polling day and ends 24 hours prior to that day.

Cuomo said the purpose of the bus tour was to help inform women voters that abortion is a campaign issue this year, and help increase female voter turnout statewide for the Women's Equality Party, which he said he hoped would become a political force in Albany this November.

Cohen campaign operatives denied fostering the intended implication but the matter soon became a hot topic for a day or two on WVOX, a local talk radio station in New Rochelle and so the political purpose was served.

Needless to say, the unions have strong incentives to mobilize for political purposes, to participate actively in electoral campaigns, and to identify and recruit sympathetic candidates.

Perhaps adding to the putative frontrunner's frustrations was a warning to his campaign by school officials not to try to use a film of the session for political purposes.

The 144 - page report ties pro-voucher forces and religious conservatives to campaigns in several states to put new re-strictions on how unions — including teachers» unions — raise money for political purposes.

His observations during that campaign of the power and influence of the unions in our state led him to found the Education Alliance, a group dedicated to assisting independent school board candidates as well as authoring, qualifying, and chairing the 1998 Proposition 226, which would have required unions to receive permission to use their members» dues for political purposes.

The brief argues that the Court's invitation to overrule key First Amendment precedents would undermine, rather than advance, First Amendment values by granting corporations the power to use huge corporate treasury funds in electoral campaigns even though such funds were not accumulated for political purposes.

84) The «Climate-gate» scandal revealed that a scientific team had campaigned for the removal of a learned journal's editor, solely because he did not share their willingness to debase science for political purposes.

According to Facebook, Dr. Kogan provided Cambridge Analytica — a political data analytics firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign and financed by billionaire Robert Mercer — access to information about 50 million Facebook users, all the while telling Facebook the data was being gathered for academic purposes.

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.

Both the McCain and the Obama campaign have had their videos removed by YouTube after news organizations complained via takedown notice that their broadcasters» images and words are being used for political purposes.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

To recap: Facebook has admitted that political research firm Cambridge Analytica, linked to both President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Brexit leave vote, improperly obtained data from as many as 87 million Facebook users for ad targeting purposes.

At the time, Kogan told Facebook he was collecting the information solely for academic purposes, but he did not reveal that his research would be handed over to Cambridge to use in political campaigns.

Facebook has recently come under harsh criticism following fresh updates on the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which managed to harvest raw data from some 50 million Facebook profiles for the purposes of Trump's 2016 election campaign.

«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.