In NYC on Aug 7? Please join me at @TheNewSchool to talk about dark data and democracy. We'll survey the progress of various #CambridgeAnalytica investigations and contemplate what happens next, this coming autumn and beyond. More details TBA! eventbrite.com/e/dark-data-an…
For folks asking for a livestream, alas no, but @TheEconomist is here recording it for an upcoming film.
Hey Robert Murtfeld, thanks for joining us tonight. You missed the opening where I asked any former employees of Cambridge Analytica/SCL to identify themselves in the audience. A shame you bolted before the Q&A. A treat for everyone else tho, nonetheless. vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/w…
Thanks to this PhD candidate here we have a livetweet thread of the talk tonight.
Gosh that moment in the talk when @WendySiegelman was describing working with @annmarlowe on the charts, since used by official investigating committees, and Robert Murtfeld is sitting on the floor in the back (still) doing recon. tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
@WendySiegelman was sharing this new chart while employing the whack-mole analogy and I can’t even
@justinhendrix mused that if QAnon was a startup it would be revered for its successful engagement and conversion. Similarly, I’d say if it was a guerrilla marketing campaign it might be lionized at Cannes. A vexatious, unattributed PSYOP, perhaps.
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The election of 2016 was a PSYOP. No, really. nyti.ms/2E6xgmD
Cambridge Analytica and Psy Group had a memorandum of understanding, reported in May. wsj.com/articles/israe…
Fact that Cruz’s Cambridge Analytica appears to have sought to team up with Psy Group, which sought to run a social media PSYOP against Cruz is…awkward.
So many simultaneous Kavanaugh scandals, overloaded the system.
- sexual (how can he deny blackouts?)
- financial (how did he pay off debt?)
- hacking (how can he deny knowing about pilfered docs)
- surveillance (how can he deny his role?)
- perjury (how can he lie about it all?)
- financial scandal: the unexplained mystery of the impossible Kavanaugh family finances is nicely documented and explained here (although I do bristle at how it downplays the sexual scandal; again see above on scandal overload) medium.com/@gregolear/sup…
- hacking and surveillance scandal: this piece by @nycsouthpaw is a twofor in that you get deep coverage on both the surveillance FOIA revelation and the senate hacking scandal context yahoo.com/news/lawsuits-…
Kavanaugh’s toxicity poisons an already reeling Facebook, enraging employees and flummoxing executives. nyti.ms/2CpoSwI
Facebook’s behavioral microtargeting political ad business unit is a moneymaker. They all shouldn’t be surprised when the chickens they hatched come home to roost.
Joel Kaplan was sitting behind Zuckerberg for his Congressional hearings. That too was a rather perjurious affair. (Zuck remains in contempt of UK parliament committee for failing to appear.)
It’s a criminal act in the UK to defy the Information Commissioner’s specific order to comply with data protection law. This order is from May 2018 and now we can confirm it will go to trial in the UK next year. wired.com/story/uk-regul…
A “defunct” company sure seems willing to spend its allegedly sparse resources going to trial against the data cops for refusing to hand over all the personal data it collected about me. What are they hiding? Will their creditors tolerate this?
If you’re up for SCOTUS then yeah all your shit is gonna get dredged up. Welcome to the future.
Kavanaugh stands to be the most anti-privacy justice on the bench. His view of the 4th is as warped as his view of the 1st. He’s most likely to rule in favor of a Citizens United-type decision for Silicon Valley, ruling that business surveillance is protected commercial speech.
It’s hard to imagine a future where Kavanaugh is confirmed and we don’t find ourselves, a decade later, in some fucked up dystopia.
I suspect one reason this mega-breach isn’t causing a bigger reaction is that it has no name. Usually hacks and breaches are quickly dubbed something catchy which catapults them thru the coverage and watercooler debates.
Cleverest I can come up is #ChuckE in reference to Chuck E Cheese’s where you get tokens for your birthday parties, in reference to how access tokens were hacked thru exploits in birthday video upload tool. But that’s quite a US-centric reference.