Seems like they played Facebook and sold the info they harvested to the Russians and Trump. I think Trump did a shit job of plausible deniability. Asshole was at too many meetings. Looks like Bannon was the liaison to Cambridge Analytica. The strings are coming together to form a net.
Cambridge Analytica front for Russian intelligence?
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Unclebaldrick
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If they did, you will blame the Jews.
Fogdog
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Facebook has a lot to answer for. They gave Cambridge Analytica access to their users who under false pretenses by CA to Facebook users downloaded an ap that gave CA access to their private information, also who they liked and followed. The users were never asked for permission to gather this information in violation of Facebook policies.
CA stole data from 50 million Facebook users to run through algorithms and profile each and every one. Cambridge Analytica then gave that information to their benefactors, Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer, a billionaire hedge fund manager, whose political action groups sent targeted messages to manipulate and help direct voters to support the Trump campaign. If somebody is neurotic, they sent messages to elevate fear. If somebody was racist, they sent messages using that information and so forth. Nobody knows at this time what all Mercer or Bannon has done with or done to secure this information.
CA also traced people's associations. Not only who they were talking to but who they liked and CA went after information on those people too.
Lukoil, a Russian oil firm tightly associated with Putin also talked with Cambridge Analytica about voter information.
Facebook has a privacy agreement with it's users that was breached. There are already legal claims made against Facebook to find out what information was stolen from them. Of course, your inane question can't be answered right now, because very similar to your cries that the Russian investigation "is a distraction" the investigation hasn't yet finished.
I would hope that somebody in CA is under investigation for breaking into Facebook's accounts. Mueller's investigative team has already ordered Cambridge Associates to turn over to them all files they have related to the Trump campaign.
Too funny you'd ask what the end point is at the very beginning. Distraction, right? Is this where you defend Putin and Russia?
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/18/594671296/report-cambridge-analytica-harvested-private-information
ttystikk
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You lie just like Buckwit. At least be original.
ttystikk
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You've got me all wrong; if what Cambridge Analytica did was illegal, I'm all for seeing those responsible get prosecuted. I'm cynical enough to think that with friends like those you mentioned, the real likelihood of same is remote.
CA did some bad shit and I find out every bit as disgusting as you do.
If it didn't cross any legal lines, I'd say there are some laws that need updating, pronto.
As it stands, it looks like yet another really good set of reasons not to be on Facebook and hand those crooks one single solitary data point about your life.
Finally, show us where I defended Putin. I've questioned the neofascist bullshit story about Russian involvement in the Skripal affair, but that's not the same as defending Putin. Conflating the two is the sign of a weak mind, smogdog.
UncleBuck
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cambridge analytics is in some seriously hot water right now.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
Fogdog
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Facebook collected fees for giving CA access to their data.cambridge analytics is in some seriously hot water right now.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
When people signed waivers to give Facebook access to their data, they didn't agree to Facebook giving their data without their permission to political campaigns who know now know more about than even the people close to them. 50 million people. Black people, Hispanic people, Democrats and Right wingers. Bannon and Mercer now own that information, probably Putin's regime does too.
This stuff is personal information in the hands of truly despicable people. Become notorious to a conservative and they know where the skeletons can be found on anybody on that list. A word to a potential employer or insurance company or ICE, maybe, is all they'd have to do.
Regarding Facebook:
They signed a decree, a consent decree, Facebook did, in 2011 with the FTC. And now we're going to find out if there's meat on the bones because supposedly it's $40,000 per violation. So if done right, this could be billions of dollars of damages.
I don't think that anyone when they've gotten on Facebook thinks that this company is giving away their data to be used by basically, it appears, a political campaign, given to this Cambridge Analytica that was started by Steve Bannon. It is - you know, Facebook says, well, this isn't technically a breach. Well, yeah, if you break into my apartment, you can do it with a crowbar or you can do it because the manager gives you a key. The manager gave them a key.
quoted from an interview by NPR with Sen. Klobuchar
ttystikk
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This is good news.cambridge analytics is in some seriously hot water right now.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
ttystikk
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Let's hope they get mauled for billions.
Anything less would be just a 'cost of doing business' kind of expense or even pocket money to one of the world's largest and fastest growing corporations.
UncleBuck
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i was thinking more like prison for the role they played in enabling treason
Sour Wreck
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fuck facebook, they need to regulated right the FUCK OUT OF BUSINESS.
fuck the morons who live on their daily, they're too moronic to be trusted with a computer.
fuck the morons who live on their daily, they're too moronic to be trusted with a computer.
Sour Wreck
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lol, fuck republicans
god damn criminals !!!!!
god damn criminals !!!!!
Fogdog
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Turns out that Mueller was there in mid December "requesting/demanding" the emails of any employees working on the Trump campaign. Of course, nothing from Mueller to say what has happened since then.
Given their headquarters location -- UK and the fact that Cambridge Analytical employed mostly contractors from any number of nations, There is also a good chance that Cambridge Analytica through its work on the Trump campaign committed violations of election laws that require only US citizens or legal residents of the US can perform work for pay on US election campaigns.
Perhaps one of these people could be flipped to become a witness?
Unclebaldrick
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Shit noes. I kept all my bitcoins on the facebook. Do you thinks they will be safes?