Sentences with phrase «used by political campaigns»

The trove of data on which the firm relied, providing everything from a user's relationship status to their education history, is increasingly being used by political campaigns and candidates to target voters.

Cambridge Analytica reportedly incorporated the data in ad - targeting tools used by political campaigns including President Donald Trump's winning 2016 bid.

The 501 c 4's have been used by political campaigns to avoid existing donor disclosure laws.

Not exact matches

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP)-- A New Zealand judge said Eminem's lyrics «You own it, you better never let it go» turned out to be prophetic after ruling a political party breached copyright by using a song similar to Eminem's «Lose Yourself» in its campaign ads.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that Moscow might use the firm's products to attack American computer networks, a particularly sensitive issue given allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia hacked and leaked emails of Democratic Party political groups to interfere in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

«The ICO has been investigating the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica as part of a wider investigation into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, social media companies and others.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

By the early 20th century, bandwagons were commonplace in political campaigns, and «jump on the bandwagon» had become a derogatory term used to describe the social phenomenon of wanting to be part of the majority even when it means going against one's principles or beliefs.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

In March, Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a political marketing firm used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign, had improperly obtained the personal information of 87 million users.

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.

We used the same kind of political preference models used by the Obama and Clinton campaigns; however we started five months out from election day and did it with far fewer resources and less data.

In fact, we've known most of the details concerning CA's massive data research, and the use of that research in political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercept.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Meanwhile Nix himself was suspended as CEO by CA last month, following a Channel 4 News investigation broadcast video footage of Nix talking to an undercover reporter and appearing to suggest the firm uses a range of dubious tactics, including front companies and subcontractors to secretly engage in political campaigns.

Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has previously said she's leading towards recommending a code of conduct for use of social media for political campaigning — and said she hopes to publish her report by May.

Detailed profiles created with users» information can be used by government agencies to identify surveillance targets, by financial service companies to determine creditworthiness, and by businesses and other organizations (including advocacy groups and political campaigns), which can target people with advertisements and marketing campaigns tailored to their profiles.

Newsjacking is being used right now by nonprofits, political campaigns, business - to - business marketers, and individuals.

In essence, Nunes alleges that the FBI used opposition research put together by a Democratic political operative to go after the Trump campaign without disclosing that clear conflict of interest to the court.

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.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said Facebook will audit thousands of apps in response to the «breach of trust» created by Cambridge Analytica — the chief executive's first comments since a crisis erupted Friday over data siphoned by the political marketing firm used by the Trump campaign.

Once obtained by Cambridge Analytica, political campaigns could use those profiles to target users with highly tailored messages, ads or fundraising requests.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

The movement has three parts: individuals and networks that use violence to advance their political goals; those who reject any system based on non-Islamic law but who aren't violent; and those who interact with society by voting or campaigning for Islamic law.

Square has been used by a handful of local political campaigns, but the Obama campaign's adoption is the first national political adoption of the technology.

The consensus is that Russia influenced the US election in Trump's favor (by eg hacking his political opponents and strategically using that information to influence public opinion; this may or may not have happened in coordination with some people from the Trump campaign).

The big news in the domestic political campaign world late last week was the announcement that the 2012 Obama campaign's trove of data and technology would be released for use by other Democrats in 2014.

Questionnaires, seemingly neutral, non-party political campaigns and many other methods are used by all the parties.

We used the same kind of political preference models used by the Obama and Clinton campaigns; however we started five months out from Election Day and did it with far fewer resources and data.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Illinois» 13th.

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.»

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Texas» 23rd.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd, 2012 focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for New York's 18th.

The Get - Out - The - Vote Google Surge Growing sophistication of search advertising by political campaigns in 2009 was also evident in the increased use of a Google ad tactic known as the Google surge or blast.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Minnesota's 8th.

Twitter as Campaign Tool The increased use of Twitter by political office holders, candidates, and issue advocacy organizations and campaigns was arguably the most important — if not hyped — advancement in digital politics in 2009.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Florida's 18th.

However, as we've collectively become more sophisticated at using omni - channel approaches to campaigning, understanding what opposing campaigns are doing across their social channels is imperative to avoid being caught by surprise — and even more importantly, can help strengthen your political or advocacy campaign.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for California's 36th.

The loyalty clause, which was added in 2002, prohibits the following activities, by a committee member, involving candidates other than the party's endorsed candidate: circulating nominating petitions; appearing in advertising; permitting the committee member's name to be used in advertising or on stationery; directly or indirectly contributing financially to a campaign; and appearing at political functions, meetings or support groups organized by a rival candidate.

Such funds 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.»

«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.

We shall select a three - member committee to coordinate party activities at the regional level by gathering updated information from all the former MMDCEs in the region about political and developmental issues to the Central Coordinating Unit (CCU) to be used by the National Executive Committee to formulate strategies, programmes and campaign messages for victory 2020 and beyond.

«The use of the governor's physical offices during that politically crucial period by Mr. Percoco allowed the Cuomo for Governor Campaign to utilize and conveniently access key governmental decision makers and the governor himself for political strategy and decision,» Cox wrote in a letter Wednesday to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

And campaign finance regulations limit the types and amounts of money that declared presidential candidates can raise, while politicians who have not declared for the presidency can continue accepting larger contributions to a range of political committees, including state - level committees like the one used by Mr. McAuliffe.

«This attempt to subvert democracy, by using public funds to pay for political campaigning, brings the whole democratic process into disrepute.»

I think it would have been inappropriate for him, and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press — and probably should have been — if on a political trip in Europe, paid for by political funds, not the taxpayers, to go essentially, then, and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign.

This argument was repeated by a lot of the supporters of the pay raise, and it is basically the same argument that is used for public financing of campaigns: to increase the field of candidates and bring more political outsiders into the mix.

By law, candidates for office can use their campaign accounts to transfer unlimited amounts to other political committees.