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[ryanoo]

Cambridge Analytica probably has this table, plus other source data which led them to this result, about me in their database.  Cambridge Analytica seems to have this and related data about every American who used Facebook.  Their purpose must be to control their minds like a robot.

 

[SemiBizz]

Never used Facebook, and never will...

 

There are a few of us who didn't bite on their BS

 

Knowing the history, why anyone would TRUST anything on that site is beyond me...

[Geomean]

It's a big news topic and talking heads subject today, esp Facebook.  This is very much a late coming focus.  It is a part of the Field Theory which arose out of Gestalt psychotherapy.  What has occurred is that the web has allowed the mapping of the individual Gestalt's of everyone in the world who use the internet.  In the US there is an average of 5000 data points per person with which to do the mapping.  Here is a deeper dive on its recent impact.

 

There were a few insightful articles on Cambridge Analytics shortly before and after the 2016 Presidential Election.  Facebook "embedded" it's people at the Trump data mining offices in Austin, and the rest is history.

 

As part of my study of election Ifocused on the role of Trumps friend and social conservative Robert Mercer (President , Renaissance Technologies), Cambridge Analytics, (founded by Mercer),  Jared Kushner (who engaged Cambridge in the Trump campaign) and their utilization in Trumps campaign of the average 5000 commercially available data points on just about every individual in America to map their individual gestalts and hence group Gestalts.

This book "Complexity and Control: Towards a Rigorous Behavioral Theory of Complex Dynamical Systems" is a graduate-level monographic textbook that sets forth the tools and techniques some of which were reportedly used by Mercer at Renaissance Technologies, (in trading) Kushner, and Cambridge Analytics (in forming and targeting Trumps propaganda) The Amazon note says this book is "intended to be a novel and rigorous contribution to modern Complexity Theory. This book contains 11 chapters and is designed as a one-semester course for engineers, applied and pure mathematicians, theoretical and experimental physicists, computer and economic scientists, theoretical chemists and biologists, as well as all mathematically educated scientists and students, both in industry and academia, interested in predicting and controlling complex dynamical systems of arbitrary nature."

 

 

The book is rigorous, and uses vastly more techniques than I use in some of the Legendre polynomial calculations I use in some of the trading algorithms I've coded. While I don't suggest that you buy and read this work, perusing it via sample or the look inside features might be tremendously enlightening on the tools now available to map the pertinent inputs (including gestalts) to the social sciences, government, and industry and, by inference, the making and carrying forth social policies in the 21st century. 

[ryanoo]

 

In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon’s “Mechanical Turk” platform, an online marketplace where people around the world contract with others to perform various tasks. Cambridge Analytica was looking for people who were American Facebook users. It offered to pay them to download and use a personality quiz app on Facebook called thisisyourdigitallife.

 

About 270,000 people installed the app in return for $1 to $2 per download. The app “scraped” information from their Facebook profiles as well as detailed information from their friends’ profiles. Facebook then provided all this data to the makers of the app, who in turn turned it over to Cambridge Analytica.

 

A few hundred thousand people may not seem like a lot, but because Facebook users have a few hundred friends each on average, the number of people whose data was harvested reached about 50 million. Most of those people had no idea that their data had been siphoned off (after all, they hadn’t installed the app themselves), let alone that the data would be used to shape voter targeting and messaging for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

 

This weekend, after this was all exposed by The New York Times and The Observer of London, Facebook hastily made a public announcement that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica (well over a year after the election) and vehemently denied that this was a “data breach.” Paul Grewal, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook, wrote that “the claim that this is a data breach is completely false.” He contended that Facebook users “knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked.” He also said that “everyone involved gave their consent.”

 

Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance. The results of that surveillance are used to fuel a sophisticated and opaque system for narrowly targeting advertisements and other wares to Facebook’s users.

 

Public surveillance used to be the tool totalitarian regimes used to control their people.  This is the 21c internet age version.

Edited by ryanoo, 19 March 2018 - 05:57 PM.

[Geomean]

Yes, but in the West it’s the entrepreneurs and private interests trying to exercise control over voters and the nature of their representative governments. It’s not the government collecting or using the field theory gestalt data, at least as far as we know now.

[SemiBizz]

There's a big technology backlash on the way...

This in a way is like "me too"

About how we all been "DONE WRONG" by these filthy Hollywood-like internet freaks like Zookerbugger... Raping us intellectually...

I still predict we're going to see people in the streets throwing their smart phones into giant bonfires...

Don't look around for big brother, he's in your friggin' pocket...

 

 

Now we need to see some big advertisers and partners of FB...

Break off relationships...

Sound familiar?

Boycott...

Hell YES !!

After all this is INTELLECTUAL RAPE...

But FB thought it was consensual...

After all you signed the contract with your first click...