Loads of people are doing this, all over the world, at every level of state/politics. What would you call Cambridge Analytica if not disrupting politics? (On

Loads of people are doing this, all over the world, at every level of state/politics. What would you call Cambridge Analytica if not disrupting politics? (On a less salubrious level there are loads of polling and canvassing companies trying to do the whole "getting elected" and "staying popular" thing a bit cleverer, without being totally amoral, using more sophisticated statistical modelling and database setups on the public electoral register.) Emmanuel Macron's campaign apparently fairly successfully fought off a state-sponsored attack on their systems when he ran for president in 2017. Estonia has held parliamentary elections using internet voting. Tax/Revenue bodies all over the world use cloud computing and machine learning methods to detect money laundering, among other things. It's not ledgers and adding machines in there. Health authorities in several countries analyse de-identifed location data from Apple and Google as part of Covid-tracking efforts. Ireland is (somewhat controversially) rolling out a single sign on for all online interactions with the state - tax, social welfare, renewing a passport etc. Those examples are all off the top of my head. The suggestion that there's no "disruption" in politics or the public service is incorrect.