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I guess Cambridge Analytica's collapse with no real consequence for people working there showed both that there's a huge market for this, and high reward with l

I guess Cambridge Analytica's collapse with no real consequence for people working there showed both that there's a huge market for this, and high reward with low risk.

SeanAppleby 7y ago
The consequences are so low that I would seriously question calling it a collapse. It's just been shuffled under a new banner as Emerdata under the same parent company with really no consequences outside of having to file some paperwork and rebrand. https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/cambridge-analytica-executives-created-a-company-in-2017-with-the-executive-director-deputy-b803f27f84a2 https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/cambridge-analytica-executive...
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  CA was also doing all of this pretty openly. It'll be much harder catching the smarter bad actors.
rapnie 7y ago
I wonder whether this'll create FOMO with any and all political actors left, right and center to jump on this kind of targeted manipulation bandwagon. Can't afford not be a player in this shady game :(
- seppin 7y ago
  It's not cheating if everyone is doing it!