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The firm shares RNC voter data with other political action groups such as American Crossroads, American Action Network and groups linked to the billionaire Koch brothers, according to published reports.

According to the contract filed in North Carolina, Cambridge Analytic will cross reference its voter data with lists of existing Heritage donors to ensure it is only providing new fundraising prospects.

According to the contract filed in North Carolina, Cambridge Analytic will cross reference its voter data with lists of existing Heritage donors to ensure it is only providing new fundraising prospects.

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

This was a year after University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan first obtained the data and around the same time that Cambridge Analytica, which was co-founded by Steve Bannon, sought out voter data with financial support from the Trump campaign.

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.

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.

But with so much data for a campaign to sift through, «you can't go through 30,000 points of data and go: «Did you acquire this piece of data on this voter ethically?»»

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.

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.

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.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

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.

Partnering data with creative, CA's creative team worked with MAN1 to compose messaging that distinctly imparted relevant content to the individual voter.

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.

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.

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 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.

For many, the Cambridge Analytica data is seen as likely connected to the Russian troll farms that targeted U.S. voters with misinformation via social media during the 2016 campaign.

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.

Reports that Facebook harvested and abused users» data for political purposes emerged Friday, as the company's former partnership with the voter - profiling company Cambridge Analytica was exposed.

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.

Even if third parties could only get a little of your data — your hometown, say, or your gender — they could match it up with all kinds of other records, such marketing databases or voter registration databases, to paint a more complete picture of you as a person.

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

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

LONDON — The crisis ravaging Facebook started when a young researcher, regretful over his role in turning data on an estimated tens of millions of U.S. voters into a high - tech political persuasion machine, decided to come forward with his story.

Combined with other data, Cambridge Analytica hoped to profile the entire American electorate — something it already had done in other countries — and determine what pitches would work best for each individual voter.

The data confirms that almost 700,000 Americans interacted with bots that were designed to mislead voters.

It uses such data to target voters with hyper - specific appeals, including on Facebook and other online services, that go well beyond traditional messaging based on party affiliation alone.

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

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

Without at least some outreach via channels with a «fuzz factor» to catch voters your data model missed, you may find yourself with a dangerously open flank.

Also note that companies like Catalist and NGPVAN don't just sell the voter file; they typically add additional data, for instance by cross-referencing voter information with consumer databases to build up demographic profiles of individual citizens.

Where else can you sit down with a data nerd who just ran a voter - targeting program in Denver, or some college kid who just coordinated a tech - enabled field operation in Raleigh?

With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important swing states, provides key voter group information (independents, gender breakdown, voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.

«The New York State Assembly Majority interprets that to mean their mission is not specific to any election and, therefore, New York's voter registration data can not be shared with the Commission,» the letter states.

The DCCC's Brandon English came back with an excellent reply, that the fundraising paid for millions of voter contacts that would otherwise not have taken place, and that the D - trip will be going through the voter file once the data's available to try to quantify any effects.

Critically, your supporters need to CHOOSE to allow your campaign to access their friends, but once they've agreed to do so, the technology matches them with individual voters the campaign has prioritized for contact based on its voter file data.

The current edition leads off with a discussion of the voter - data infrastructure being created by the Koch brothers» political machine, centered around consulting firm i360.

Meanwhile, we've seen Hillary Clinton build a modern digital campaign determined to marry data and direct outreach to wring every bit of advantage out of each online (and offline) encounter with a voter.

Many campaigns are taking advantage of this huge mass of data to not only communicate with their current and potential supporters, but also to gain significant intelligence on potential voters.

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio chose opposite strategies in the weeks leading up to the early primaries, with Cruz basing his campaign on data analysis and voter modeling.

Commercial marketers usually have a wealth of data to work with, from demographics to credit history to homeownership, but when he started working in politics, Ghani was struck by the fact that political campaigns are trying to build voter models based on a handful of data points.