sixoclock Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I posted about Cambridge Analytica harvesting private information from more than 50 million Facebook users a day ago, looks like they are now in deep water... Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company 3/19/2018 The UK's Information Commissioner says she will seek a warrant to look at the databases and servers used by British firm Cambridge Analytica. The company is accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election in 2016. Its executives have also been filmed by Channel 4 News suggesting it could use honey traps and potentially bribery to discredit politicians. The company denies any wrongdoing. Fresh allegations On Monday, Channel 4 News broadcast hidden camera footage in which Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix appears to suggest tactics his company could use to discredit politicians online. In the footage, asked what "deep digging" could be done, Mr Nix told an undercover reporter: "Oh, we do a lot more than that." He suggested one way to target an individual was to "offer them a deal that's too good to be true and make sure that's video recorded". He also said he could "send some girls around to the candidate's house..." adding that Ukrainian girls "are very beautiful, I find that works very well". Mr Nix continued: "I'm just giving you examples of what can be done and what has been done." Channel 4 News said its reporter had posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get a political candidate elected in Sri Lanka. However, Cambridge Analytica said the report had "grossly misrepresented" the conversations caught on camera. "In playing along with this line of conversation, and partly to spare our 'client' from embarrassment, we entertained a series of ludicrous hypothetical scenarios," the company said in a statement. "Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps'," it said. Mr Nix told the BBC's Newsnight programme that he regarded the report as a "misrepresentation of the facts" and said he felt the firm had been "deliberately entrapped". Investigation UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is already investigating Cambridge Analytica over claims it used the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. Christopher Wylie, who worked with the company, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people through a personality quiz on Facebook that was created by an academic. Ms Denham had demanded access to Cambridge Analytica's databases and servers by 18:00 GMT but said the firm had missed her deadline. "I'm not accepting their response so therefore I'll be applying to the court for a warrant," she told Channel 4. "We need to get in there, we need to look at the databases, we need to look at the servers and understand how data was processed or deleted by Cambridge Analytica." 'Violation' Cambridge Analytica insists it followed the correct procedures in obtaining and using data, but it was suspended from Facebook last week. Facebook, meanwhile, said it had hired its own digital forensic team to audit Cambridge Analytica. "This is part of a comprehensive internal and external review that we are conducting to determine the accuracy of the claims that the Facebook data in question still exists," the firm said. "If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made." Facebook added that Aleksandr Kogan, the creator of the personality app from which the data had been harvested, had also agreed to be audited. However, it said Mr Wylie - who made the claims about the way the data was gathered and used - had declined. SOURCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoclock Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 For those who are not up to speed on Cambridge Analytica, see below: Making sense of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica nightmare. How Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data, triggering a new outcry. Hope the above help keep you up to speed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 LOL good thing I deleted my Facebook account ~ 2 years ago. I deleted my Twitter account yesterday. Once going online, there is no privacy any more. Remember this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 so did the russians help trump ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 22 minutes ago, oliverjia said: LOL good thing I deleted my Facebook account ~ 2 years ago. I deleted my Twitter account yesterday. Once going online, there is no privacy any more. Remember this. Ive not been on there since 2011 then used fake info to join , Some sites use to make you join and post it on you're facebook page it to get free software giveaways . Other than for that i never signed in .News is everywhere why would i sign in to any site just to read news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 15 hours ago, 0bin said: This is only the tip of the huge iceberg, block graph.facebook.com Cambridge or Oxford, doesn't matter... They change name in one hour Like it really means anything It don't, it would take a idiot to not know this is not a scandal that is just how facebook works . People act like this is something new when it's not , Does it take the UK witch you cant go out in public even there , without being spied on, to wake people up . people sold out there data years ago to a like button . thats why there called Generation like. The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/camridge-analytica-scandal-how-facebook-works-harvesting-data-politics-trump-brexit-a8264051.html While all these stories are going up all the data harvesters of the Internet are still churning and nothing has changed ..Facebook would block the UK before they would stop harvesting data . There's no real free rides and nothings really free you're giving them something and this is how Facebook gets paid. This reminds me so much of Snowden it's not funny , even though Echelon was widely known back in the 90s on the Internet but unconfirmed, it took him to wake everyone up and before he woke people up everyone was called conspiracy theorists and nut bags that talked about such things . Snowden proved it to be true. Now the tables have shifted from Government to big tech and some are proving it to be true as well . I been warning people about big tech every since Google and Facebook became a popular thing. The sleeping world ,who are so blind from the forest they can't see the trees . but the difference is Facebook and Google made changes to there privacy policy and if you ever logged in after you consented to them selling you're data, it all there in black and white.in there toss and still people try to be naive and argue about these facts, because they use these services and I no longer do, every since right before they changed there privacy policies and i got wind of it stop using them. Back in 2004 Mark Zuckerberg said every one on the Internet was Dumb Fu*cks , and he was not too far off, because he collects data off like 2 billion Generation like people now and thats half the Internet now . even if his empire would die tomorrow he will live like king the rest of his days . His net worth is still 37 billion he lost $5 billion over Cambridge and thats more money 99% of world will ever see any one can live good off 1billion he most likely got that much hid somewhere maybe more. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoclock Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Update: Cambridge Analytica "nixes" its CEO, Alexander Nix... Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix after undercover recordings air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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