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Twitter Sold Data Access To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Researcher (bloomberg.com)
Facebook is clearly the company most affected by the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, but that doesn't leave other social networks completely unscathed. Bloomberg: Twitter sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook users' information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users' consent. Aleksandr Kogan, who created a personality quiz on Facebook to harvest information later used by Cambridge Analytica, established his own commercial enterprise, Global Science Research (GSR). That firm was granted access to large-scale public Twitter data, covering months of posts, for one day in 2015, according to Twitter. "In 2015, GSR did have one-time API access to a random sample of public tweets from a five-month period from December 2014 to April 2015," Twitter said in a statement to Bloomberg. "Based on the recent reports, we conducted our own internal review and did not find any access to private data about people who use Twitter." The company has removed Cambridge Analytica and affiliated entities as advertisers. Twitter said GSR paid for the access; it provided no further details.
people are sheep. Present company included.
It's only a scandal because Hillary lost.
It's a free market bitches.
:o
I still find it hilarious that Cambridge Analytica keeps getting raked over the coals. The collectors/aggregators of this information Facebook/Twitter/ChoicePoint are the real problems, at least after the stupid users.
They love being violated.
You mean companies with no discernable product other than the information their users share with them in exchange for free service sold that information to pay for the free service their users enjoy! Who could have seen this coming?
Ken
I still don't know what Cambridge Analytica did wrong or was against the law. And is Cambridge Analytica associated with Cambridge University? Aside from having "Cambridge" in common, what does one have to do with the other?
If its an issue of inappropriately accessing private data, I would think that the blame falls mostly on Facebook and Twitter.
I don't see Zontar anywhere in this thread.
I do see (((APK))) talking to himself again, but there's nothing remarkable about that.
* You & yours from "SWEDEN"? NO BALLS - you let your women get RAPED by muslims (whereas MY TRIBE, poles, DROVE THEM OFF when all the rest of Europe, except Lithuania, RAN)!
Actually you can thank multiculturalism for that. The attitudes of Islamic culture concerning things like how to treat women, how to govern, and how to live are simply not compatible with prevailing European cultures. In the precious name of immigration and refugees (taking refuge from the environments their own Islamic ideas have created) much of Europe is being flooded with Muslims who have absolutely no intention to integrate. Many of them favor implementing Sharia Law in their host country. These are the people who celebrate "honor killings" even when the victim is a close relative.
Anyone who opposes this madness with its predictable outcome is called a "racist" and branded with a scarlet R (and in much of Europe, can be imprisoned). Strange how white people are a 14% minority worldwide yet only white nations need diversity. No nation or institution is ever proclaimed "too Arab" or "too black" and in need of diversity. It's nothing more than an increasingly obvious effort to destroy white culture.
You're right about the men having no balls. Men with their balls in place would oppose a movement to destroy them and everything they have built over the ages. It's part of why the drive for immigration is strongly correlated with the female vote (along with the nanny state). Despite the way this Islamic culture regards women as disposable property, at least their men will fight for something. It explains much of the fascination white women have with other races (whereas a white man in a mixed-race couple is a rare sight).
... they had access to PUBLIC data. OMFG, TWITTER IS AS BAD AS FACEBOOK!!!
msmash=Facebook fanboy fucktard
What's that hayseed song from Team America..."Freedom isn't free? It costs a hefty f*'kin fee." Song needs a rework "Facebook isn't free, the bill is data from you and me."
He's polish. All eastern-europeans and russians trash talk, it's a national talent and ought to be enjoyed for what it is. If you do it right, you can get them really riled up for the fun of it. I call this the magic ratio: You say one sentance right, you'll get 100 sentances of trash talk and incoherent swearing in return.
Twitter -> "We did it for money!"
Do all of you not see that so-called 'social media' is a cancer on our civilzation? Get it out of your life starting with today, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. No such thing as 'safe' social media, it will all be abused no matter how many laws they pass.
Allahu akbar!
There's much more.
It's not just Twitter and FB, and the numbers they're admitting are far smaller than the numbers that they actually have released data on.
Far, far smaller.
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Somewhere about 1200km deep in the atmosphere of Saturn would be about right.
You claim that you only attack people when they attack you. Zontar is nowhere to be found, yet here you are attacking him. That makes you a liar, and you know it.
This is hardly the first time you've engaged in such behavior, and a Google search reveals your long history, nearly 20 years, of attacking people. People should associate your name with security software, yet because of your rampant attacks and harassment, it's actually associated with your vile behavior.
You become unreasonably angry whenever someone criticizes you, especially when they post anonymously or from a pseudonym that you can't readily associate with a real name and other contact information. This, of course, angers you greatly because it limits your ability to extend the harassment beyond the confines of a particular website like Slashdot. You have a long history of threatening legal action against anyone who criticizes you or disagrees with you online, as evidenced by your threats on Arstechnica dating back to at least the early 2000s. It would be incredibly unwose for anyone to provide personal information to you, lest you use it to search for compromising information to harass them with or to make threats toward them. Your threats, of course, are frivolous, because no judge, jury, or law enforcement officers would approve of your nasty behavior. Nonetheless, your behavior is absolutely unwelcome.
You are becoming increasingly deranged, getting angrier and angrier with each additional post. Your obsession with Zontar is truly disturbing, much like a jilted lover who then proceeds to stalk, harass, and defame his ex.
By the way, you're not a real man. I'm 100% certain of this. A real man has the integrity to admit when he's wrong and to be accountable for his actions. You almost never admit when you're wrong, despite it being on display for all to see, and the numerous people who point it out to you.
By the way, I'm not looking for anyone to mod you down. I frankly don't care. If you get modded down, your asinine posts are hidden so they don't obstruct legitimate discussion of the article. However, if your post got modded to +5, I'd be okay with that, too. It would increase the visibility of your posts so everyone can see what a nasty person you are, allowing you to more effectively destroy your reputation with anyone who might not already be aware of your nastiness.
If you post a personal attack in response to my post, it will only provide yet further evidence that you're a deranged psychopath. Feel free to humiliate yourself yet again.
APK's rubbish got dusted yet again. Don't expect a reply from him. He knows you're right, and like you said, he's incapable of admitting he's wrong about anything. Rather than admit the truth, he'll ignore your post or launch unrelated personal attacks. He might even accuse you of being Zontar because in his mind, every anonymous coward just has to be Zontar. He'll probably claim the original post was actually someone impersonating him, now that he's seen how poorly his nonsense was received. That's his typical tactic, to claim he was impersonated when people criticize one of his posts.
How do you get a one armed APK(polock) out of a tree?
Answer: wave to him. o/