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superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 03:34 PM Mar 2018

BREAKING "Whistleblower" had his own data-mining company that met with Lewandowski in 2015

Beware Trojans bearing gifts...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/cambridge-analytica-chris-wylie-eunoia-trump-campaign?utm_term=.mv2DXDD7dx#.hkxW2WWpMB

Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica cofounder who recently blew the whistle on the political consulting firm’s improper procurement of the personal data on millions of Facebook users, had the same dataset when he was establishing a business of his own in 2014, according to information obtained by BuzzFeed News. The following year, that company, Eunoia Technologies, subsequently pitched Republican political operative Corey Lewandowski on microtargeting tools that could be deployed on behalf of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Emails from 2014 provided to BuzzFeed News show that Eunoia possessed a database of more than 50 million Facebook profiles at the time. That same information — and Facebook’s wider data collection policies in general — are now being scrutinized following reports by the New York Times and the Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired it from a company called Global Science Research (GSR), which originally collected it for academic purposes.


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BREAKING "Whistleblower" had his own data-mining company that met with Lewandowski in 2015 (Original Post) superpatriotman Mar 2018 OP
thank you for posting. -nt poboy2 Mar 2018 #1
Jeebus...K&R... spanone Mar 2018 #2
K&R backtoblue Mar 2018 #3
more... superpatriotman Mar 2018 #4

backtoblue

(11,343 posts)
3. K&R
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 03:44 PM
Mar 2018

Caroline Kennedy's book " The Right to Privacy".
Very interesting read, if somewhat outdated technologically.

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)
4. more...
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 03:46 PM
Mar 2018
After responding to an initial request for comment, Wylie's attorney went dark and did not answer the questions BuzzFeed News put to her Tuesday.
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