Sentences with phrase «political targeting purposes»

And, ultimately, for Cambridge Analytica to get its hands on the profiles of ~ 50M US Facebookers for dark ad political targeting 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.

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.

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.

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.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

Not exact matches

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

Almost a year ago, in May 2017, the ICO announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes — including looking into complaints related to Cambridge Analytica's use of data for ad targeting.

The purpose of terrorism is to exploit the media in order to achieve maximum attainable publicity as an amplifying force multiplier in order to influence the targeted audience (s) in order to reach short - and midterm political goals and / or desired long - term end states.»

Note that the political purposes and end goals of terrorism are 100 % irrelevant - merely the tactics (targeting non-combatants on purpose).

Her dissertation, «The Art of Sympathy: Picturing the British Abolition Movement, 1776 - 1833,» analyzes illustrated texts that target viewers» emotions for political purposes.

Thanks, that 4343 note (April 24, 2003) from tranche II is spot on, perhaps the «seminal» note by Schneider, eliciting a targeted response (to Soon / Bial), for nakedly political purposes.

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

What is surprising is that an academic researcher could so flagrantly violate the spirit and the terms of the data - sharing policies Facebook has in place by taking that data and giving it to a firm that was never authorized to have it in the first place for the purposes of political targeting.

Almost a year ago, in May 2017, the ICO announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes — including looking into complaints related to Cambridge Analytica's use of data for ad targeting.

It's those kinds of permissions that researcher Aleksandr Kogan allegedly abused years later to gather data on unwitting Facebook users for purposes of targeted political messaging.

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.

So perhaps it's worried it might risk losing this chunk of elite business in the US if American Facebook users have to give explicit consent to their political leanings being fair game for ad targeting purposes.