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Related: About this forumMolly Schweickert, Cambridge Analytica: Keynote d3con 2017
Edit: about 11:20 she starts talking about data collection
20:00 in !!!!! Location target ads on YouTube on election day
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Molly Schweickert, Cambridge Analytica: Keynote d3con 2017 (Original Post)
backtoblue
Mar 2018
OP
I think we need to change some privacy laws so that we can't be so easily targeted.
The Wielding Truth
Mar 2018
#4
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)1. Persuasion advertising about 17:30 in
Audience Q & A at around 28 minutes in..
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)2. Facebook mention at about 34 min
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)3. Fucking robot
Constantly moving from left to right and back again
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)7. I swear she didn't studder once in the whole video
I honestly don't know what to make of this, but marketing out our elections by using psychological manipulation is chilling and should be illegal.
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)4. I think we need to change some privacy laws so that we can't be so easily targeted.
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)5. No one asked if the info used to persuade was checked for accuracy.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)6. That is an excellent question!
How did they verify the information that they were manipulating people with? Psychological manipulation should be illegal.
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)8. Despite her breathless elocution of scholarly prose
on the "science" of data analytics as relates to shaping public opinion...
This is one evil vile person.
I don't even care that the "product" they were selling was Trump... these people are modern Joseph Goebbels with huge amounts of what should be private data and modern data mining techniques.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)9. Kick for exposure