A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
(MapLight) A controversial family credited with helping Donald Trump win the White House spent $4.4 million last year to finance climate change deniers, according to its foundation’s latest tax return. The Mercer Family Foundation, led by ...
The Transparency Problem According to Facebook, information of over 80 million users was used unethically by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. From a public statement in April, “In total, we believe the Facebook information of up ...
Fallout From Cambridge Analytic Data Usage The conversation surrounding digital security is in the international spotlight following Cambridge Analytica filing for bankruptcy. Data and security experts have begun looking towards blockchain technology as a possible ...
Cambridge Analytica, the consultant company accused of manipulating millions of Facebook users’ data for political purposes, announced on Wednesday it will shut down. But is Cambridge Analytica really shutting down or just rebranding as Emerdata? ...
Facebook is under criticism following the data breach that affected 87 million users worldwide during the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. That number is much higher than the tens of thousands that Cambridge Analytica ...
Chairman of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, who is overseeing defense and foreign affairs, said that the head of Facebook’s Southeast Asia division will address parliament this week in ...
Channel 4 News, a major U.K. news agency, just published an apparent damning undercover investigation of Cambridge Analytica, the data company that Trump hired for his 2017 election and has played an active role in ...