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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING "Whistleblower" had his own data-mining company that met with Lewandowski in 2015
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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 firms 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 Trumps 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 Facebooks 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.
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 Facebooks 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
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poboy2
(2,078 posts)1. thank you for posting. -nt
spanone
(135,832 posts)2. Jeebus...K&R...
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)3. K&R
Caroline Kennedy's book " The Right to Privacy".
Very interesting read, if somewhat outdated technologically.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)4. more...
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.