Lets not forget the Russia connection to Cambridge Analytica. Will CA allow Russia access to data?

[MelissaB]

Will Donald Trump’s Data-Analytics Company Allow Russia to Access Research on U.S. Citizens?
Tracing the suspicious-looking, and messy, ties between a Ukrainian oligarch, an elections-information firm, and the GOP candidate’s former campaign manager

By Ann Marlowe

The Trump campaign has hired Ted Cruz’s former data-analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica—and in doing so, it has connected itself with a British property tycoon, Vincent Tchenguiz, and through him with the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a business associate of Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who resigned last week. It would be hard to find a better example of why the ownership of the companies that collect data on the American electorate matters.

What Cambridge does is what marketers have done for some time now: segment potential customers (in this case, voters) by their buying habits, lifestyle, and psychology. It most famously worked on the “Leave.” campaign during Brexit voting in the United Kingdom.

Cambridge Analytica’s British parent company, SCL, has attracted criticism for some unusual strategies, such as trying to persuade opposition supporters not to vote in a Nigerian election, using the influence of “local religious figures.”

More: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/211152/trump-data-analytics-russian-access

This article is from August. I'm just trying to figure out how this will play out. I think CA is the smoking gun that will bring Trump/Russia to its knees.

[rzemanfl]

1. The way the Russkies hack, does "allow" even matter?

I agree that CA and the British reporting will tear this wide open and verify what I have been saying for at least a year or more.

[TubbersUK]

2. 'The Cambridge Analytica Files : links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg uiniversity'

Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with – which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon – also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin.

Energy firm Lukoil, which is now on the US sanctions list and has been used as a vehicle of government influence, saw a presentation on the firm’s work in 2014. It began with a focus on voter suppression in Nigeria, and Cambridge Analytica also discussed “micro-targeting” individuals on social media during elections.

The revelations come at a time of intense US scrutiny of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, with 13 Russians criminally charged last month with interfering to help Donald Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. "Will CA allow Russia access to data?" Eh...

Does daybreak first occur in the east?

Do stars become visible at night?

Has the 20th century already passed?


Why even raise the question when we already know the answer?