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If the staff of these companies was actually concerned about this issue, they wouldn't have allowed Obama to do this. It's clearly not an issue with the techniq
by malvosenior 7y ago
If the staff of these companies was actually concerned about this issue, they wouldn't have allowed Obama to do this. It's clearly not an issue with the technique, but who is employing it.
> Have you been living under a rock? Cambridge Analytica?
Like I said, Obama did exactly that (from the article I posted):
> "Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database."
- tomnipotent 7y agoNo one in 2012 knew how out-of-control the combination of social media advertising combined with politics could be, and it's absolutely disingenuous to expect people to predict the future because you have the benefit of hindsight. Obama's campaigned happened to be the 1st, and it was newsworthy. Then the next cycle happened, Facebook had more than doubled in size and this time around the combination was abused - enter Cambridge Analytica and Russia. Now the tech companies have spent days in front of the Senate & House in DC, and somehow we're surprised they've decided now of all times to call it quits? During one of the hottest political contests in recent history? What's more likely - tech giants colluded to stiff Trump and the right, or they all decided not to be a player in something so political and rather lose out on inconsequential revenues?