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Mueller's investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign's data operations, particularly about how it collected and utilized voter data in battleground states, according to a person with direct knowledge of the line of inquiry but not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Mueller's investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign's data operations, particularly how it collected and utilized voter data in battleground states.

As Democratic campaigners search for the best tools to track voters and voter contacts, some of them are looking at working with their voter data in a platform from the upstart nonpartisan firm NationBuilder instead of with software from NGP VAN, which many Democrats have used for years.

Not exact matches

Democratic preference in both polls was slightly above data site 538's polling aggregator, which on Sunday showed that 48.5 % of voters who said they would support a generic Democratic candidate in 2018, compared to 37.6 % who preferred a generic Republican.

The app cut ties with Cambridge Analytica in Mexico after the British company was accused by a whistleblower of improperly accessing data to target US and British voters in recent elections.

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 March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge AnalyticIn March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analyticin data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

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

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

The first exit poll data released on Election Day shows that just about 4 in 10 voters are excited about a possible Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency.

Its roots lie in the 2002 establishment of computerized statewide voter registration lists, but things really took off after the data - driven 2008 victory of Barack Obama.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed «was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»

«In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data,» Bloomberg reported last week.

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.

«In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data,» Bloomberg said.

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.»

The consulting firm relied on Facebook data to profile and target voters while advising the Trump campaign in 2016.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

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 goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

«The closing of Cambridge Analytica doesn't stop the problem that voters and consumers face in terms of a growing loss of privacy and a gross misuse of their data,» said Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy.»

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 firIn 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 firin the US 2016 presidential campaign, a new story broke out last night involving the embattled analytics firm.

«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement last week.

«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement.

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.

More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles

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 itIn 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 itin 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 itin each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin 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 voterIn 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 voterin 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).

Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

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.

In Advertising Age, a political client said the embedded Cambridge staff was «like an extra wheel,» but found their core product, Cambridge's voter data modeling, still «excellent.»

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.

The home - sharing company analyzed its own listing data to draw that conclusion, clearly in the hopes of swaying voters in its favor.

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.

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.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from over 50 million Facebook profiles was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights, many Facebook users have decided to delete their accounts — but untangling yourself from a siIn the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from over 50 million Facebook profiles was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights, many Facebook users have decided to delete their accounts — but untangling yourself from a siin which data from over 50 million Facebook profiles was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights, many Facebook users have decided to delete their accounts — but untangling yourself from a site

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.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.