9 Best Articles in 2021
medium.com
Why (almost) everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is wrong
medium.com
~14 min read · 265 saves · From 2018 · Chris Kavanagh · A summary of the technical info you need to know in order to properly understand the Cambridge Analytica story.
youtube.com
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'
youtube.com
57 saves · From 2018 · Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a sy...
Gizmodo
Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down [Updated]
Gizmodo
2 min read · 27 saves · From 2018 · On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica employees learned that its parent company, the SCL Group, was shuttering the business, with American-based workers directed to return their keycards immediately,…
WIRED
A Hurricane Flattens Facebook
WIRED
~11 min read · 87 saves · From 2018 · As the Cambridge Analytica story broke over the weekend, Facebook has struggled to formulate a response.
The Guardian
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
The Guardian
4 min read · 324 saves · 2020-01-04 · Carole Cadwalladr · Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
Channel 4
Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
Channel 4
9 min read · 155 saves · From 2018 · An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.
youtube.com
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks
youtube.com
84 saves · From 2018 · An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking ab...
The Guardian
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'
The Guardian
3 min read · 76 saves · From 2018 · Whistleblower details workings of Cambridge Analytica and its use of targeted political advertising that could be used to influence people's opinions
The Baffler
The Cambridge Analytica Con
The Baffler
~17 min read · 87 saves · From 2018 · When a whistleblower outed Cambridge Analytica for the inappropriate use of Facebook profile information for the purpose of influencing US elections, people around the world were understandably outraged. But, as author Yasha Levine explains in his analysis of the situation for The Baffler, this was a symptom of much deeper privacy concerns that involve the biggest tech companies in the world. getAbstract recommends this sprawling article to anyone interested in learning the truth behind personal privacy in the era of big data.
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BBC News (World)
Facebook sued for 'losing control' of users’ data
BBC News (World)
2 min read · 10 saves · Feb 9th · The alleged data breach was revealed in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
bylinetimes.com
Cambridge Analytica Psychologist Advising Global COVID-19 Disinformation Network Linked to Nigel Farage and Conservative Party
bylinetimes.com
9 min read · 10 saves · Feb 2nd · Nafeez Ahmed · Nafeez Ahmed reveals how COVID pseudoscience and anti-lockdown groups have morphed into a sophisticated, well-funded global network
TechCrunch
Facebook’s secret settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog
TechCrunch
5 min read · 17 saves · Jan 26th · Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that…
Guardian Tech
Facebook asks to appeal court ruling that it conducts business in Australia
Guardian Tech
2 min read · Jan 19th · Christopher Knaus · Social media company aims to avoid liability over Cambridge Analytica scandal by arguing it does not collect or hold data in Australia
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TechCrunch
Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
TechCrunch
4 min read · 61 saves · From 2018 · Since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of millions of Facebook users, one question has lingered in the minds of the public: What other data did Dr. Aleksandr Kogan gain access to? Twitter confirmed to The Telegraph on Saturday that GSR, Kogan’s ow…
BuzzFeed
Facebook's Data Scandal Is Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica (Or Facebook)
BuzzFeed
8 min read · 63 saves · From 2018 · It’s a moment that forces us, collectively, to step back and think about what we sacrificed for a more convenient and connected world.
medium.com
Cambridge Analytica: the Geotargeting and Emotional Data Mining Scripts
medium.com
8 min read · 75 saves · From 2017 · Last year, Michael Phillips, a data science intern at Cambridge Analytica, posted the following scripts to a set of “work samples” on his…
Slate
The Real Scandal Isn’t Cambridge Analytica. It’s Facebook’s Whole Business Model.
Slate
6 min read · 17 saves · From 2018 · Facebook isn’t just the source of the data Cambridge Analytica used. It’s the reason this sort of data—organized in this way—exists in the first place.
The Guardian
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
The Guardian
5 min read · 456 saves · 2020-07-26 · Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer writer who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is the sicker for it
Fast Company
The mysterious afterlife of Cambridge Analytica and its trove of data
Fast Company
9 min read · 12 saves · 2019-07-26 · As the U.S. announces a lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica, the Mercer-controlled Emerdata discloses that it now owns the disgraced Trump data firm and its parent company.
Guardian Tech
British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters
Guardian Tech
6 min read · 67 saves · From 2017 · Legal loophole may help academic expose how Big Data firms like Cambridge Analytica and Facebook get their information
Boing Boing
Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name
Boing Boing
2 min read · 38 saves · From 2018
London Review of Books
LRB · William Davies · Why the Outrage?: Cambridge Analytica
London Review of Books
9 min read · 29 saves · From 2018 · There is at least one certainty where Cambridge Analytica is concerned. If forty thousand people scattered across Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania had changed their minds about Donald Trump before…
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