What is the fuss all
about with Facebook?
Your personal
private information that's what!
How Hillary and the
‘Citizens of the Unites States’
got
(rudely violated to
say the least),
by the
Russians/Facebook/Donald Trump campaign!
What is Cambridge
Analytica?
Cambridge Analytica
is a British political consulting firm which combines data mining, data
brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral
process.
It was started in
2013 as an offshoot of
the
SCL Group.
Reported
In a blog post,
Facebook's Chief
Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer
said
the company believes
data
from up to 87 million people
was
"improperly
shared"
with
Cambridge Analytica,
the consulting firm
who received data on users and their networks from a researcher who developed
an app that captured the information. Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica, the
researcher and a former employee from the platform in March.
What is Global
Science Research?
last week released
a “new publication
that offers guidance on conducting research responsibly in a research
environment that is increasingly international and multidisciplinary.” https://www.unh.edu/research/blog/2016/02/new-resource-conducting-global-science-responsibly
P.S.
What ever happened
to the rests of the founders of the original face book?
Facebook was
launched on February 4, 2004,
by
Mark Zuckerberg, along
with fellow Harvard
College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and
Chris Hughes.
The founders
initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students.
Later they
expanded it to higher
education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University.
What
happened in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and what steps Facebook is
taking to ensure that it doesn't happen again.
Facebook and
Cambridge Analytica are the two main actors in an
that touches on the
Trump campaign,
millions of Facebook
users
and
even two presidential elections in Kenya.
It's complicated, so
here's a breakdown.
Why are Facebook and
Cambridge Analytica in the news?
In a nutshell,
because the personal
data of
50 million people was pulled from Facebook
by a company
contracted by
Cambridge Analytica
and used for ...
we're not sure exactly what.
(Facebook later said
the number may have been even higher: up
to 87 million users.)
The third-party
firm, Global Science Research, used a clicky personality quiz
to get people to
interact with the app,
which then
of that user, and
also the same data relating to all their friends --
typically 200-300 other
people per user.
WHY?
Time will tell my friends
Time will tell.
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