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Wylie says the firm sought Facebook information in order to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

Former Cambridge Analytica employee - turned - whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the firm sought Facebook information to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

British investigators on Friday night searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data - analytics company that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users to develop psychological profiles on behalf of political campaigns, including that of President Trump.

And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign's voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections.

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.

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 firm sought information on Facebook to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

«Cruz's campaign exploited personal information to create psychological profiles on millions of Americans.

Cambridge Analytica sought information on Facebook to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the U.S. electorate.

Not exact matches

The success of this approach hinges on the accuracy of the company's psychological profiles.

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.

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).

Cambridge Analytica claims on its website that it's able create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level,» and that the company has «up to 5,000 data points on over 230 million American voters.»

He also played down the role of psychological profiling in the company's work, much of which, Mr. Tayler suggested, is still based on traditional data analytics and marketing.

Why, after British journalists exposed in 2015 that the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz targeted voters online using the resulting 40 million - plus psychological profiles — acquired by the firm Cambridge Analytica, backed by megadonor Robert Mercer — Facebook did not follow through on a pledge to ensure the data destroyed.

Patients have their exercise sessions individualised, depending on their long and short - term goals, current physical abilities, and psychological profile.

The Rhys Method ® Life Purpose Profiles are based on the psychological work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Dr. Alexander Lowen that focused on how the character of an individual arises or is stifled through trauma, or early core wounding in childhood which in turn affects both their mental and physical health.

The effects of Vinyasa Yoga on Cardiovascular and Physical Fitness as well as Psychological Profiles of Well - being.

What's your spin on psychological profiling?

They don't want to undergo a psychological test and dozens of questions on family before submitting their profile.

Members can be sure of getting suggestions based on the psychological profiles and other preferences that one would voluntarily choose.

Most of his other early roles are disappointing, either showing his tendency to go overboard (his lawyer in «Criminal Law» is more over-the-top than Kevin Bacon's psychopath) or select roles in films where eagerness trying on new accents and psychological profiles seem to overshadow coherent character work («Chattahoochee»).

Her warping, self - interested exchanges with Claude, himself on the cusp of adulthood and subject suddenly to the full bore of his mother's psychological profiling (oh, how she loves to «diagnose» everyone except herself), form some of the most acutely uncomfortable moments, as Margot refuses to conform to any maternal stereotypes, despite Claude's steady, almost dazzled filial affection toward her.

So, whilst I think you can get some great data on laptops and create learner profiles and all that sort of stuff, you need the psychological and cognitive and emotional push of that face staring at you, saying «you need to do the best by me».»

d. State longitudinal data systems and a massive increase in state and federal gathering of private family, education, and psychological data on our children without consent e. Career - tracking, which undermines self - determination by means of an insistence on student compliance with the very flawed standards and subjective, unconstitutional psychological profiling f. Again, according to Education Week, the opt - out amendment that passed the House has been removed.

At CHampagne Kennels we have the expert knowledge of the pedigree profile of our dogs, genetic research in temperament and psychological history profile, intensive health back ground information on key health issues, on most of our dogs and are proven in all phases of «titling».

The thought of seeing my own version of Silent Hill based on psychological profiling and and my own game play was terribly exciting as well.

Researchers can envisage a game that builds a detailed psychological and social profile of a player, from both their in - game actions and online footprint — but there's still a gap between this, and the horror game posited in Black Mirror, which performs an invasive neurological hack on the player.

From the 18th century on, portraits became psychological studies, culminating in the works of Freud and highlighted here, the unique profile of Alfred Hitchcock.

In a profile for The New Yorker, John Brooks noted that Gutman was «probably the only writer of a broker's stock - market letter whose readers count on him not only for financial advice but also for cultural commentary, psychological insights, and even spiritual guidance.»

It would be interesting to have a psychological profile done on someone like Parncutt to determine what has led him to become so mentaly unstable.

MB: So in 2017 you can claim you have psychological profiles of 220m U.S. citizens based on five thousand separate data sets?

The election services branch of SCL, Cambridge Analytica created psychological profiles of voters for clients at SCL Group, which otherwise conducts «influence operations» on behalf of politicians and governments worldwide, which includes the use of political propaganda.

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.

Parscale declined to discuss the company's work on psychological profiling because he has not «opened the hood» on its technology, he said.

It claims to be able to create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level, according to its website, which also says the company can leverage «up to 5,000 data points on over 230 million American voters.»

«In fact, recent media reports suggest that one of the 2016 US presidential campaigns used psychological profiles of millions of US citizens to suppress their votes and keep them away from the ballots on election day.

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.

Jonathan Albright, research director for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, said that the company used psychological profiles to appeal to voters» negative emotions, providing just enough of a nudge that they act on them in some way, even if that meant staying home instead of voting.

It's a political and marketing firm that purports to help clients target specific people with specific messages based on detailed psychological profiles of their behavior.

He also played down the role of psychological profiling in the company's work, much of which, Mr. Tayler suggested, is still based on traditional data analytics and marketing.

The firm, which worked on the Trump presidential campaign in 2016, paid 270,000 users to participate in a 2014 personality survey to help the firm build psychological profiles.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based consultancy gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based data mining firm gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Schroepfer revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

The data firm started partnering with U.S. political campaigns around 2015 with the promise that it had the ability to do what it called «psychographic» targeting, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level, according to Cambridge Analytica's website.

We don't yet know how effective Cambridge Analytica's targeting, based on psychological profiles its CEO has described as its «secret sauce,» truly was, but after working with Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in the Republican primary, Cambridge Analytica was tapped by the Trump campaign.

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.

One of the MPs asked whether the «psychological profiling» used in the Ted Cruz campaign - giving the example of playing on the fear of women being attacked in their own home in order to support his tough stance on gun ownership - was scaremongering because it used fear as a tool.

After all, the personal data collected by Facebook (which is another issue all by itself) on millions of users — data that contains enough personal details to create a startlingly accurate psychological profile — was simply handed over to someone because he claimed it was for academic research.

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