Sentences with phrase «using voter data»

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Virginia elects a new governor in November, and while the political fundamentals (and the current governor's ethics) will likely determine the outcome, both Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are using voter data to target their canvassing outreach.

The Trump campaign denied using voter data from Cambridge Analytica, saying it relied on data from the Republican National Committee, but had help from some of the firm's employees.

One other consideration — with an API available, outside developers can use the voter data for their own purposes.

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential election, after executives with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.

Cambridge Analytica has denied Facebook data was used to help to build profiles on American voters and build support for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.

In 2016, more voters are also using big data to identify trends in candidate activities and digital records to separate the truth from the lies.

That scandal involved how the data of 87 million Facebook users was scraped and used as a psychological weapon to target voters.

Cambridge's website describes using the company's «unique data - rich voter file» to build high - tech profiles for all North Carolina voters that were used to increase turnout and help Tillis unseat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

The agency used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials, according to the NSA document.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

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.

Some news accounts indicate that his campaign stopped using the firm's data after the South Carolina primary in late February 2016, though federal campaign records show more than $ 670,000 in payments to the firm for «media / voter modeling» or «voter ID targeting / web service» in March and June, plus $ 218,000 for «media» and «digital service / web service.»

WASHINGTON — Under fire for his connections to a voter - targeting firm that used data taken from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz insisted Tuesday that he was unaware of any impropriety.

Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook data to help build tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Kogan harvested and sold that data to Cambridge Analytica, a political firm that would use information on identity, social networks and likes to target demographics and influence voters.

Lukoil was interested in the ways data was used to target American voters, according to two former company insiders.

Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic» profiling, meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters.

The data collected by the app reportedly was shared with Cambridge Analytica and used to help the firm build profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to better target advertising to them.

In addition to the previous media articles showing how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to target US voters in the US 2016 presidential campaign, a new story broke out last night involving the embattled analytics firm.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

We used the data to identify «persuadable» voters, how likely they were to vote, the issues they cared about, and who was most likely to donate.

In doing this we used a suite of models produced by the data science team, which outlined profiles such as undecided voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to online cookies, mobile devices, and social IDs.

Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic» profiling, meaning it uses data collected online to create personality profiles for voters.

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.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

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 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).

Earlier this week, a whistleblower claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and data analytics firm, had used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.

Cambridge's website says the company's «unique data - rich voter file» was used to build high - tech profiles for all North Carolina voters and increase turnout, helping Tillis unseat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

Groundgame, an app for election canvassing that integrates voter data with «geospatial visualization technology,» was used by campaigners for Trump and Brexit.

The idea that every voter in the country was profiled using between 4,000 and 5,000 data points aggregated, blended, and matched to voter registration files was unprecedented and deeply distressing.

We should sue Cambridge Analytica to take back control of our data from the company, which compiled complex profiles of 50 million Americans and used them to target voters.

As is now famous, the company harvested the Facebook data of 50 million Americans that it obtained via a third - party app, and used it to target voters.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

The Trump campaign had rejected early overtures to hire Cambridge Analytica, and Trump himself said in May 2016 that he «always felt» that the use of voter data was «overrated.»

The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that it claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.

Cambridge Analytica used the personal Facebook data of more than 50 million users, acquired through a third party, to create profiles of prospective voters and «microtarget» persuasive voting messages to them, according to a whistleblower who told his story to The Guardian and The New York Times.

The Canadian firm is suspected of having pocketed more than $ 4 million from assorted pro-Brexit groups for using Facebook data to identify voters whose decision was susceptible to influence.

The latest allegations — that a Trump campaign consulting firm with Russian connections used improperly obtained Facebook data on tens of millions of Americans to target voters — raise disturbing questions about the roles of both Facebook and Russia.

With regards to the Facebook scandal specifically, Cambridge Analytica are accused of harvesting personal data from 50million Facebook profiles, data which was then used to psychologically profile victims to drive advertising campaigns, targeted at voters in the US elections.

It's also been accused of using its illicit Facebook data to exert untoward influence over voters.

Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so - called psychographic profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

Facebook said it thought Cambridge had deleted the data, but the Times» and Observer reports cited former employees and documents that the data was used to target voters during the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook revealed on Friday that a voter profiling firm hired by Donald Trump and other Republicans had improperly used data from 270,000 users of the social media platform.

The consultancy is accused of using online data to create voter personality profiles to target users with personalized political advertisements.

Cambridge Analytica specializes in using online data to create voter personality profiles in order to target users with political messages and ran data operations for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.