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Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency (theverge.com)
Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that harvested millions of Facebook profiles of U.S. voters, attempted to develop its own cryptocurrency this past year and intended to raise funds through an initial coin offering. The digital coin would have helped people store online personal data and even sell it, former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser told The New York Times. The Verge reports: Cambridge Analytica, which obtained the data of 87 million Facebook users, was hoping to raise as much as $30 million through the venture, anonymous sources told Reuters. Cambridge Analytica confirmed to Reuters that it had previously explored blockchain technology, but did not confirm the coin offering and didn't say whether efforts are still underway. The company also reportedly attempted to promote another digital currency behind the scenes. It arranged for potential investors to take a vacation trip to Macau in support of Dragon Coin, a cryptocurrency aimed at casino players. Dragon Coin has been supported by a Macau gangster Wan Kuok-koi, nicknamed Broken Tooth, according to documents obtained by the Times. Cambridge Analytica started working on its own initial coin offering mid-2017 and the initiative was overseen in part by CEO Alexander Nix and former employee Brittany Kaiser. The company's plans to launch an ICO were still in the early stages when Nix was suspended last month and the Facebook data leak started to gain public attention.
How bout not posting story summaries with your GOD DAMNED IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!
An absolutely superior and trustworthy company!
Maybe they want to make some buck after their recent flop?
Well, colour me surprised.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Their mission statement must read something like: "To exploit and profit from misguided public trust in any recent data or computing platform, before their lack of any safeguard becomes widely known"
Next step, I suppose they will turn into something AI related, like predictive-algorithm-guided stock investing or something equally juicy.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
here is the twist, he would sell the data in the drive before you pay the ransom and probably after...
One scam meets another.
Exactly. Next I expect to see a headline that claims "Cambridge Analytica executives eat babies."
It's called the Ruble
Table-ized A.I.
No need to worry. At least we can be sure this one is a Corrupto-Currency.
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and the FBI confiscate all their computer hardware, desktops, laptops, storage systems, EVERYTHING and inspected for illegal activity then run through a shredder. All their employees personal electronics confiscated and searched and if any employee has any data on other people they be arrested and investigated for identity theft, and the whole outfit shut down, they are basically criminals
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Man, I'm watching Mr Robot these days, and Cambridge Analytica looks more and more to me like a real-life version of E Corp... http://mrrobot.wikia.com/wiki/...
...they had been supporting Hilda, then all would be 100 percent OK and they would be praised for "supporting a high tech campaign".
It is very funny indeed how the sheeple can be whipped into an outrage by the mainstream media for something WE ALL KNEW BEFORE. The business model of Facebook was no secret at all. Neither is that of Google, which is almost identical to Facebook's model.
And let's don't start to talk about those 135 tracking companies which will load your computers with cookies for two days or less of web surfing. They ALL try to build shadow profiles and will connect it to your read id at the first opportunity.
This is part of the Stupid Whitey phenomenon.
The first ICO to steal both your data and your money! Amazing.
And Global Warming?
that would have to include camel toe and stuffing socks down your shorts
Wait, are you saying that camel toes and stocks stuffed in your shorts breach decency? What if someone identifies as a person who has a big "package", but has a small one and can't afford surgery - and is otherwise very good at their job? Are you suggesting they should be fired for not being cispackaged?
Behind your thin veil of tolerance, I sense in fact a very narrow minded vision of society. Preaching acceptance of things that you find acceptable and in the same breath condemning things you don't find acceptable is a huge red flag.
Also the fact that the guy looks like a muffin groper has nothing to do with his hair color or nose ring, it's something else, something deeper that is part of his core essence. It's like watching a picture of Roy Cohn and knowing instantly that deep down that person was a soulless sociopath; on paper he was just a plain white guy in a suit, but there was clearly something wrong with him. Too bad if you're lacking this capacity for gut feeling.
lucm, indeed.
Are the tickers $SPY and $ANAL taken yet? Probably.
No problem, they can still combine the two and be $ANALSPY. Brand recognition right there.
With Cambridge Analytica the cryptocoin owns you.
Cambridge Analytica is the company behind recent Facebook’s massive data leak scandal. It is now planning to issues its own cryptocurrency and aiming to raise funds through ICOs. It is also tried to promote Dragon Coin associated with a Macau gangster. The company tried a variety of technologies including blockchain. here is also similar info: https://coinpedia.org/news/cam...