A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed
psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
The newspaper reported that the Ted Cruz campaign had paid UK academics to gather
psychological profiles about the US electorate using «a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey».
A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed
psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
The Guardian alleged that Cruz's campaign contracted - out the creation of «detailed
psychological profiles about the U.S. electorate, using a massive pool of mainly unwitting U.S. Facebook users, built with an online survey.»
Not exact matches
The company said it was «building a way» for people to know if their data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the
psychological -
profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid
about 270,000 people to take part in.
The researchers who warned
about abuses of Facebook data show how
psychological profiling gets results.
It's really all a personal choice
about how you interpret investment research and theory and how well it sits with you (while truly understanding your
psychological makeup, risk
profile and financial requirements for the future).
Other strategic information could include: connected third party application data; comments and likes on public Facebook pages; internet browsing history through Facebook APIs and scripts; consumer loyalty programs, mobile app logins; publicly shared photos and
profile information that users forget
about; and (I'm presuming) more mundane tactics such as harnessing unassuming personality «quizzes» on Facebook that capture invaluable psychometric data people readily share with their friends and families, but not with a
psychological voter
profiling firm.
While past privacy debacles have centered on what marketers gather on users, the stakes are higher this time because the firm is alleged to have created
psychological profiles to influence how people vote or even think
about politics and society.
The company said it was «building a way» for people to know if their data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the
psychological -
profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid
about 270,000 people to take part in.
Because, while the debate right now seems to be
about whether or not Team Trump was wrong to do what the Right has justly condemned Clinton and Obama for doing (and the only principled answer to that question is «yes») the real issue here is that Internet platforms — including most social media — routinely harvest data
about users and aggregate that data to create startlingly accurate
psychological profiles.