Sentences with phrase «political targets»

So it can hardly claim it wasn't aware of the value of user data for political targeting.

For both sides, campaigning matters, but even the best political targeting in the world is useless if you can't find enough people willing to be persuaded.

This can be quite expensive (potentially more than $ 100 million for the largest districts) and is an easy political target.

They have the option of enforcing it strictly, stopping every other online advertising vendor from offering political targeting, creating a monopoly.

This guidance document compares the resulting emission level in 2030 with the track towards the agreed political target of a temperature increase no more than 2 °C by the end of the century.

Those people agreed to share data with the app for research — not for political targeting.

She was talking in the context of political targeting, since reaching someone on a cellphone is far more immediate and even intimate than hitting them via a...

The intent was to use the information for political targeting purposes for the benefit of the Trump campaign.

«I don't understand why Lukoil wants to know about political targeting in America.»

The company on Wednesday said that up to 87 million people, mostly in the U.S., may have had their data improperly shared by political targeting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Giving up the climate targets would amount to a declaration of political bankruptcy and discredit other political targets as well, perhaps even those of the Paris Agreement.

LARRY ELLISON: If the government used it to do political targeting.

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

The 10 % per year front end emissions reductions of Hansen's half - reforestation plan or Anderson's base plan (even though it is based on the 2 C political target) will result in GDP reductions on the order of 6 - 7 % per year initially, which will decline EXTREMELY gradually as high carbon sources are replaced by low carbon sources.

«Firms that aren't friendly to him, especially those whose business models center on the use of artificial intelligence and taking labor out of the marketplace, will offer a juicy political target,» Eurasia Group wrote.

So you've got an easy - to - understand scandal that directly affected hundred of thousands of Americans, a slam - dunk political target in an election season, and a poster child for frustration about Wall Street's pay.

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

Deficit targets have become political targets.

President Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign - style rally in Michigan, an Upper Midwest state that was crucial in sending him to the White House.

This would suggest equal - opportunity political targeting.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

It vastly oversimplifies the issue; it chooses an out - of - date political target; it casts an annoying white guy as a savior for hopeless Africa; the organization gets money from the radical right and has a militaristic slant; and, lastly, the naiveté of the campaign makes your average 6 - year - old look cynical.

Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, had challenged the Republicans — many of whom are also political targets — to vote against the budget resolution.

If trusts are failing to realise the benefits of the contract it is because they have been distracted by the pressure to balance their books and meet political targets.»

Expect fireworks as legislative critics use the opportunity to criticize the Democrat, one of the Republicans» favorite political targets.

«Anyone who has used the NHS can see what's wrong with it: too many central diktats which leave hospitals in debt as they are forced to prioritise political targets rather than patient care,» he said.

They are, however, the respective political targets of Jindal and Astorino.

The boom in agrofuels is a major factor increasing both food prices and price volatility — driven by political targets like the European Union's target for 10 % of transport energy from renewable sources by 2020.

this is not pure science, this is science with an objective political target.

Since 2015, Facebook has changed its policies, limiting the amount of user data third - party apps can siphon from the network — although it still allows sophisticated political targeting through its advertising platform, the kind which the Trump campaign was able to use, likely abetted by the Cambridge Analytica data set.

Reports in the New York Times indicated the firm and its parent company SCL Group had talks with Russian oil executives about political targeting and ran focus groups in the US that included «extensive questions about Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin,» a series of events former employee Christopher Wylie told the paper left him «super confused.»

Given Miliband's self - styled desire to take on vested interests, he might find an easy political target in facing down Russell Group vice-chancellors already struggling to justify their own pay awards.

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.

I'm sure FB didn't expect the data to be used for political targeting in an election that would end up biting them hugely in the ass, but they knew exactly what they were doing at the time.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are still reeling from the fallout from a scandal caused by news that 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, ultimately, for Cambridge Analytica to get its hands on the profiles of ~ 50M US Facebookers for dark ad political targeting purposes.

But Wylie spoke with particular passion about his own feelings of guilt for helping to develop an advanced new form of political targeting that was used by people whose conservative politics are the opposite of his own.

Because they've become such a central feature of the new «on - demand» world of work, temp agencies are also finding themselves to be political targets.

The venerable British weekly had said that Mark Carney was its top choice, but today it was worrying about whether a foreigner with a long list of unpopular choices to make will become an easy political target.

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 on Friday suspended an analytics firm best known for its work on the Donald Trump campaign for scraping Facebook users» data without their permission for political targeting, and lying about having destroyed it.

«Amazon remains a political target, but is more difficult to regulate.