Podcast appearances and mentions of Christopher Wylie

Steve Bannon is woke and cool? Nah. Today we are talking about the book written by Christopher Wylie about his experience as a whistleblower for Cambridge Analtyica and the work they did on the Trump presidential campaign and the Leave.EU campagins. It is a tale of only bad guys and the entire world has to deal with the conseqences of their actions. Yay us.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/book-cult--5718878/support.

Mladost je življenjsko obdobje, za katerega so značilne velike spremembe. Odraščanje prinaša nove družbene vloge in burno fizično in psihično dogajanje. Kakšno je danes poslavljanje od otroštva in kako poteka stopanje v odraslost? Koliko je negotovosti? Kaj radosti mlade in kaj jih skrbi? Kakšen je pogled na svet prek zaslonov in aplikacij? Kakšna so tvegana vedenja? Kaj pa duševno zdravje? So mladi v redu ali bi nas moralo skrbeti? Digitalne tehnologije so postale del naših vsakdanjih življenj in očitno bo tako ostalo oziroma bo tehnologije še več, kljub temu, da imamo z njo številne težave. Edward Snowden je razkril, da spletni giganti v sodelovanju z obveščevalnimi in varnostnimi agencijami omogočajo množičen nadzor ljudi, Christopher Wylie, da na Facebooku poteka ciljana politična propaganda, Frances Haugen, da Meta ve za škodljive učinke svojih algoritmov prikazovanja vsebine na Instagramu na duševno zdravje mladih uporabnic in uporabnikov, pa jih ne popravi. Julia Ebner, raziskovalka ekstremizma, pa ugotavlja, da se je ta iz temnih kotičkov interneta preselil na največje platforme in jih zavzel, tudi s pomočjo lažnih profilov in umetne inteligence. Polarizacija in radikalizacija sta postali del našega vsakdana. Kako gre v tem svetu mladim? Mladi so digitalni domorodci, v svet pametnih telefonov, družbenih medijev in računalniških iger so se rodili. V času pandemije je del njihovega vsakdana postalo izobraževanje in druženje prek domačih računalnikov, ki so se iz skupnih prostorov spet preselili v otroške sobe. Od pandemije naprej otroška psihiatrtija poka po šivih od najhujših primerov depresije, anksioznosti, samopoškodovalnih vedenj, motenj hranjenja in samomorilnosti. Iz osnovnih šol poročajo o hudih pritiskih, ki jih mladi doživljajo pri pehanju za najboljšimi ocenami, in o strahu pred najhujšimi oblikami medvrstniškega nasilja, ki so se zgodile tudi v državah v naši bližini in se ne dogajajo več le čez lužo. Potem pa je tu še nič kaj vzpodbudna realnost, od podnebne krize do vojnih žarišč v neposredni bližini, inflacije, nepremičninske krize, do porasta nasilja na podlagi spola, krhanja demokracije in odvzemanja človekovih pravic. Kako to doživljajo mladi? Kaj kažejo raziskave? Kako zelo nas mora skrbeti in kaj lahko sploh naredimo? Kako je torej v naši domovini biti mlad?O tem v tokratni oddaji Intelekta z gostjami. To so zaslužna profesorica doktorica Mirjana Ule, znanstvena svetnica s Fakultete za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani, doktorica Helena Jeriček Klanšček z Nacionalnega inštituta za javno zdravje, vodja mednarodne raziskave za Slovenijo HBSC – Z zdravjem povezana vedenja v šolskem obdobju, in raziskovalka medijev in tehnologij mladih doktorica Barbara Brečko, znanstvena sodelovka na Fakulteti za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani. Oddajo je pripravila Urška Henigman.foto: pixabay

This week we bring you part 2 of our exploration of the Cambridge Analytica Scandal — cast in a very different light. In part 1 we took a look at Christopher Wylie's origin story and the sketchy science behind the supposed “psychological warfare mindfuck tool” Steve Bannon employed within Cambridge Analytica on behalf of Robert Mercer, which, the story goes, won the election for Donald Trump by manipulating the masses. In part 2, we're gonna be taking a look at Wylie's attempt to create his own Cambridge Analytica, how he turned into the supposed do-gooder whistleblower in the first place, and what it means for the accepted narrative about the scandal. We are joined again by guest writer Anthony Mansuy, a French reporter for Society Magazine. For this two-parter, Anthony conducted months of research and forty exclusive interviews. You'll be hearing from Cambridge Analytica employees, data scientists, former Obama, Trump and Cruz campaign staffers, as well as friends and associates of Chris Wylie. The evidence lays out how Wylie spread numerous fabrications and exaggerations to minimize his contribution to the development of Cambridge Analytica's tools and conceal the true causes of his departure from the organization. More importantly, Wylie capitalized on the deepest fears held by the liberal media about the far-right, social media, and Russia; allowing him to craft the perfect narrative to fit the political moment — one that persists to this day. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Anthony Mansuy: https://twitter.com/AnthonyMansuy Les Dissidents (Anthony's book): https://bit.ly/3jgCFfK Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, DJ Death. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Zapraszam do posłuchania o kilku książkach o wpływie (social) mediów na społeczeństwo i demokrację. Do dyskusji o książkach, zapraszam na YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uc4DQMrcmSI (https://youtu.be/Uc4DQMrcmSI) Linki, o których wspominam w audycji: Sue Gardner @CHI2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDUB3T7_GW8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDUB3T7_GW8) Film "Hakowanie świata": https://www.netflix.com/pl/title/80117542 (https://www.netflix.com/pl/title/80117542) WUD Warszawa 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkCZYw14LM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkCZYw14LM)

The metaverse is taking shape, quickly. But what opportunities and pitfalls lie ahead for your brand? In this episode we preview our upcoming webinar with Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie on Feb 16th, 2022. Chris sparked an outrage when he revealed the nefarious data dealings at Cambridge Analytica using Facebook user data and that has led to numerous law and watchdog groups trying to ensure it doesn't happen again. Hear Chris's thoughts, based on his deep knowledge of Facebook data, in the upcoming webinar. Link to register in the Resources section.

In this episode, Brian chats with author Christopher Wylie about the way the theme of family shows up in his books, both fiction and non-fiction, and ways to combat the attacks on the contemporary family in our culture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Incontro con Christopher Wylie. Intervista di Omar Monestier Il mercato del consenso ripercorre in modo brillante e allo stesso tempo terrificante il data crime che nel 2018 sconvolse il mondo. Christopher Wylie descrive la sua esperienza alla Cambridge Analytica, la società che, tramite un'innocua app da lui sviluppata, riuscì a raccogliere e sfruttare i dati personali di milioni di utenti di Facebook mettendoli a disposizione del team di Trump durante la campagna elettorale del 2016. Edizione 2020 www.pordenonelegge.it

Marc Silver and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his film 3.5 minutes, cities designed dot separate, bridge building, racism, gun violence, fact versus fake news, vertical learning curves and justice through storytelling.TrailerFind out more about Marc here and stream the film here.Synopsis:Black Friday 2012: four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum.A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store, and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down.3½ minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead.About Marc:Marc Silver is an award-winning filmmaker and director of the Oscar shortlisted and Emmy nominated feature doc, 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets. It premiered at the Sundance Festival 2015 winning the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact.His first feature length film Who is Dayani Cristal? premiered at the Sundance Festival 2013, where it won the Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary and the Amnesty International Best Documentary Award 2014.In 2017 his third feature length film To End A War about the peace process with the FARC was released in Colombia.From 2018-20 Marc has been embedded inside Amnesty International researching ideas related to future technologies and their impact on human rights. The work has led to a short film about the profound gene editing tool CRIPSR, as well as a series of ideas with Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism, and Christopher Wylie who whistle blew the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story.He is completing his latest feature length documentary The World Is Forest in spring 2021.Image Copyright and Credit: Motto Pictures and Candescent Films.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support March 21st is census day in England and Wales and an important milestone because the 2021 census is the first mostly-digital census ever conducted here. A digital census has its obvious benefits, namely that statistics can be gleamed immediately on the available data. What interests me is not the results of the census but the data security and privacy implications that a digital census inherently has and whether, considering we already share so much of ourselves anyway, a census is fit for purpose. ONE: Conducting a digital census and storing sensitive information Concern around data privacy and government surveillance has increased in recent years. The revelations of Edward Snowden, Christopher Wylie and other whistleblowers have all come to light since the last census and knowledge that the data we provide companies is being used to profile and sell us is hardly secret. In July 2019, the Information Commissioner's Office conducted a survey that revealed that the public has a ‘low level of confidence in companies and organisations storing and using personal information' mostly thanks to concerns about data theft, data misuse, and that data being sold. The Open Data Institute and YouGov in October 2019 discovered that less than a third of citizens trust central government or local authorities with their data. More 25 to 34 year olds trust credit card companies than they do our elected leaders. I have completed (and you should complete) the census especially when failure to do so is punishable with a £1,000 fine. Despite such a heavy financial penalty, I suspect we may see record non-compliance this decade thanks to this distrust, social media conspiracy theories, and protest. And the reality is that a lot of this distrust is actually well placed: data breaches happen all the time and their scope and impact are increasing in size as we share more data with more outfits. All of this has a surprisingly positive impact (unless you work for the census office). People are becoming more reluctant to share their personal information. The number of people willing to share their home address fell from 41% to 31% from 2018 to 2019 and only 54% of respondents to one survey said they were willing to share their email address. Data from the census is consumed in two key ways. The first is instant and is available to statisticians as soon as you begin submitting information; the second features a time-delay of 100 years. Anonymised, aggregated statistics such as population and demographic. Your individual data point is featured here but you are not individually identifiable. Personally identifiable information. Information specific to you available for public consumption after 100 years, including your address, religion, sexuality and more. Where any data is concerned, you've got to trust: The security of the person who is submitting data; that their computer or telephone is free from anything that may leak or compromise their data The security of the staff working with the data (and there are as many as 30,000 of them) The security of staff equipment; their computers, telephones, and data storage techniques The security of company infrastructure the data is stored on centrally; servers and networks The security of any third-party companies it's shared with; the people who own the servers and their staff and all of their equipment and infrastructure The Census 2021 website says that ‘everyone working on the census signs the Census Confidentiality Undertaking' and that ‘[i]t's a crime for them to unlawfully share personal census information' but the law didn't prevent the release of 3.2 billion records from data breaches in the first two months of 2021, so why it would be a deterrent here I do not know. What I'm alluding to is that sooner or later, 2021 census information may suffer a data breach and end up somewhere it shouldn't. There are simply too many possible attack vectors. Let's not underestimate how valuable of a weapon this information actually is. Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser described their data modelling as a ‘weapons-grade communication technique' and claimed that because it was so dangerous, it was export-controlled. Information warfare is the new-norm and raw data on the entire population of a country could be a very alluring dataset for a foreign power or a shiny trophy for a black-hat hacker. Someone associated with an online hacker group claimed to have laid their hands on 2011 census data pretty immediately thanks to the ‘security-illiterate UK government' and posted what appeared to be an entire dataset for public viewing on Pastebin before it was taken down. Of course, I am assuming here that a bad actor is the cause of all data breaches, which isn't entirely true. Since the last census, the government themselves have managed to simply lose or misplace at least the following: 3,000 patient records after a computer used by the NHS was sold on eBay without being properly wiped Records on 600 maternity patients and their newborn children, lost by misplacing unencrypted USB sticks Over 1,000 records containing details of witnesses with links to serious criminal investigations after an unencrypted USB stick was stolen from a home 32,000 physical pages of text and 81 tapes of audio regarding an investigation of BAE Systems 114 files linked to 1980s Westminster paedophile ring allegations 2.5GB of data containing complete security information for Heathrow airport including badges, maps, and CCTV camera locations Is it any surprise two-thirds of people distrust authorities with their data when their track record of keeping it safe is so abysmal? Those conducting the census would refute this stating on their website that they have a ‘security regime that follows government standards'. Judging from their track record, those standards aren't great. All this said, digital censuses are more undoubtedly more robust and arguably immutable than paper ones: 1931 census returns were completely destroyed in a fire in Middlesex where the census was being stored which is a terrible shame. Could we one day see a blockchain census? TWO: Is a census fit for purpose? The question isn't whether censuses themselves are good or bad – I actually think they're very valuable historic tools, which is why you should definitely fill yours out – but whether the methodology is correct and whether they're necessary to reflect on current times. The census asks several questions but they fall into three categories: What and where you are: Your address, your biological birth sex, your age Who you identify as: Your gender, your sexuality, your religious beliefs How you live: Homeowner or renter, how many cars you own Due to World War II, the 1941 census wasn't taken but the National Registration Act 1939 established a National Register ‘for the issue of identity cards' and took a population count on 29 September 1939. Forty million people were registered in some 7,000 transcript books providing a viable census substitute, recording nearly the same information. A census is remarkably useful, representing in solid statistics changing behaviours and outlooks but I'd also argue it's not the business of anyone what sexuality you are, what God you might want to believe in, nor what the relationship you have with the people in your household is. The rest – where you live, how old you are, and whether you own a car or rent a home – is already available from HMRC, the DVLA, and more. Photographer Noah Kalina reflected on this idea stating that a photograph is worth more many years after it's taken and I think that sentiment is applicable here too. A census, or something like the Mass Observation diary project, is potentially our best way of measuring the past but we have many better ways of measuring the present. As a matter of fact, censuses are so useless at measuring ‘right now' that people are already calling for a second ‘emergency census' in 2026 given the impact coronavirus and the UK's exit from the European Union has had on our lifestyles. Again (and because I really don't want to be sued) you definitely should fill out the census, but arguably it's the people who don't that unwittingly reveal the most about society.

Mindfck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America is a first person account from the official whistleblower of one of the biggest data crime scandals to happen in the last decade, Christopher Wylie. He details the whispers of how Trump got into office - connecting Facebook, Russian intelligence, and international hackers - as well as exposing the behind the scenes of social media manipulation on the mass.  Tristan Cross (https://twitter.com/tristandross) and Renay Richardson (https://twitter.com/RenayRich) join the host of Broccoli Book Club Diyora Shadijanova (https://twitter.com/thediyora) to discuss. Buy the book here (https://shorturl.at/aoD23). In next month's book club we'll be discussing Humankind by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app. Episode warning: Please note, there is strong language throughout this episode.

Diyora Shadijanova (https://twitter.com/thediyora) talks with award winning screenwriter and editor of the anthology The Good Immigrant, Nikesh Shukla (https://twitter.com/nikeshshukla). They discuss Nikesh's pursuit of a failed rap career, the process he went through to select contributors, and the moment of clarity he had whilst talking to his daughter about racism and how that encouraged him to write his new memoir Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home. In next month's book club we'll be discussing Mindfck:Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com  Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app.

This episode features Carole Cadwalladr, a journalist for the Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom. Carole worked for a year with whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her report into Cambridge Analytica. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. Carole's work has won a Polk Award and the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019.

It’s hard to imagine running a successful brand in 2021 without advertising on Instagram, buying search ads on Google or selling on Amazon. At BoF VOICES, H&M’s Christopher Wylie and venture capitalist Roger McNamee talked about why that’s probably not a good thing — and how the industry can reduce its reliance on tech giants.   Before the pandemic, social media and e-commerce giants like Facebook and Amazon were ascendant. The physical isolation caused by the ongoing global health crisis has only consolidated their power. Nevertheless, fashion brands can’t rely on a handful of Silicon Valley firms to run their businesses, venture capitalist Roger McNamee said at BoF’s VOICES.   In an interview with Christopher Wylie, who blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica’s improper use of Facebook user data during the 2016 election, McNamee outlined how big tech has touched off a “cascading series of catastrophes going from the online world into the real world.” In fashion, Facebook, Amazon and Google have inserted themselves between brands and their customers. Though they offer unparalleled marketing and commerce capabilities, McNamee noted their clients pay a steep price in the long run by ceding control of such crucial elements of their businesses. But all is not lost.   “The fashion industry has a superpower,” he said. “You’re actually connected to culture, so people care what you have to say. You have to recognise as an industry that these guys are changing the rules and you have to fight back.”     Find out more about #BoFVOICES here. To contact The Business of Fashion with comments, questions or speaker ideas please email podcast@businessoffashion.com. Sign up for BoF’s Daily Digest newsletter. Ready to become a BoF Professional? For a limited time, enjoy 25% discount on an annual membership, exclusively for podcast listeners. Simply, click here, select the Annual Package and use code PODCASTPRO at the checkout.   For all sponsorship enquiries, it’s: advertising@businessoffashion.com.

Leaders in Washington and on Wall Street are grappling with conservative allegiances as lawmakers approach a vote on impeachment and corporate America cuts off donations to lawmakers who opposed the 2020 Presidential Election results. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie discusses the fundamentals of big tech regulation and responsibility with Twitter’s former Global Chair of News and former President and CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller. Plus, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla joins CNBC’s Meg Tirrell to discuss coronavirus vaccine bottlenecks across the country. 

飛碟聯播網《飛碟早餐 唐湘龍時間》2020.12.28 週一閱讀單元 讀書共和國社長 郭重興 《Mindf*ck 心智操控【劍橋分析技術大公開】：揭祕「大數據AI心理戰」如何結合時尚傳播、軍事戰略，深入你的網絡神經，操控你的政治判斷與消費行為！》 ※主題：《Mindf*ck 心智操控【劍橋分析技術大公開】：揭祕「大數據AI心理戰」如何結合時尚傳播、軍事戰略，深入你的網絡神經，操控你的政治判斷與消費行為！》/ 克里斯多福．懷利 / 野人文化 ※來賓：讀書共和國社長 郭重興 ◎內容簡介： Facebook全面封殺的數據犯罪爆料！ 【劍橋分析事件】首位吹哨者──Christopher Wylie 完整揭露「史上最強數位操控戰」技術內幕！ 你相不相信，有一家公司可以窺視所有人的心智、可以瞄準最脆弱的一群人，偷走群眾的自我認知，植入有錢人想要的版本？在本書中，Christopher Wylie以「主謀者視角」，首度公開數位心理戰的第一手內幕。2014年，年僅24歲的Wylie創立了「劍橋分析公司」，他結合自身的時尚、駭客、心理學專業，親自帶領公司開創出史上最強大的「心理剖繪」（psychographic profiling）技術。 這項技術能夠扭轉人類行為、操控群眾意識，全世界的政治人物和有錢人都虎視眈眈，但一切很快就失控……英國快速脫歐、美國川普當選、世界秩序一夕顛覆。原本或許能進白宮的Wylie，為何退出了「劍橋分析」團隊？他又爆了什麼機密的料，竟然遭致臉書和IG封鎖帳號、全面噤聲？ ◤沒有資料庫，就準備輸到脫褲 ◤AI、心理學怎麼駭進你的腦袋？ ◤和Prada、Gucci學習打選戰！ ◤#黑暗三元素 #軍事間諜 #國家崩潰 ◎作者介紹：克里斯多福．懷利（Christopher Wylie） 出生於加拿大英屬哥倫比亞省，曾在倫敦政治經濟學院（LSE）學習法律，後進入中央聖馬丁設計學院研究機器學習、時尚趨勢預測。2014年，年僅24歲的懷利加入「劍橋分析公司」，帶領公司開發出關鍵的數據分析技術。他一手創立了「劍橋分析」，又一手摧毀了這家公司。2018年，他向《衛報》爆料「劍橋分析」進行網路心理戰的機密文件，這些文件揭露劍橋分析涉嫌未經許可，獲取超過8,700萬名Facebook用戶的個人數據，更與俄羅斯暗中合作，操縱了英國脫歐、美國大選的選民投票意向。懷利的爆料開啟了英、美兩國進行有史以來規模最大的數據犯罪調查行動。 ▶ 《飛碟早餐》FB粉絲團 https://www.facebook.com/ufobreakfast/ ▶ 飛碟聯播網FB粉絲團 https://www.facebook.com/ufonetwork921/ ▶ 網路線上收聽 http://www.uforadio.com.tw/stream/stream.html ▶ 飛碟APP，讓你收聽零距離 Android：https://reurl.cc/j78ZKm iOS：https://reurl.cc/ZOG3LA ▶ 飛碟Podcast SoundOn : https://bit.ly/30Ia8Ti Apple Podcasts : https://apple.co/3jFpP6x Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2CPzneD Google 播客：https://bit.ly/3gCTb3G #劍橋分析 #Christopher Wylie #唐湘龍 #唐湘龍時間

In this episode Derick talks about data misuse, using advanced technology regardless of the consequence, and sends a message to the people of Portland. He breaks down the Facebook data misuse of Cambridge Analytica (1:55), being cornered in by social media platforms that have monopolized on our dependency to their technology (3:14), social media shifting towards e-commerce rather than leisure entertainment (5:40), the indoctrination of young people on the internet (7:20), using advanced technology regardless of the consequence (8:40), and lastly, Derick gives a message to the people of Portland (10:14). Get a free domain for a year, 1-click Wordpress installation, and 24/7 hour support from Bluehost for just $3.95/mo using this link: https://www.bluehost.com/track/portlandfreethinkersclub/ . Follow us on Instagram @portlandfreethinkersclub . For more info: www.portlandfreethinkersclub.com/show-notes .Support the show (https://cash.app/$derickgvisuals)

Christopher Wylie w 2018 roku ujawnił tajemnice Cambridge Analytica - firmy współpracującej z Facebookiem. Opowiada o manipulacjach, niszczeniu demokracji przez wielkie korporacje. Jak zwiększyć bezpieczeństwo w sieci? Czy Polskie wybory prezydenckie mogły zostać zafałszowane, lub zmanipulowane? Czy Wylie jako whistleblower miał jakiś kontakt z Edwardem Snowdenem? Książka "Mindf*ck" do kupienia tutaj, bardzo polecam: http://bit.ly/mindf-ck Partnerem rozmowy jest wydawnictwo Insignis

Welcome to the history of computing podcast. Today we're going to talk about the use of big data in elections. But first, let's start with a disclaimer. I believe that these problems outlined in this episode are apolitical. Given the chance to do so I believe most politicians (or marketers), despite their party, would have jumped on what happened with what is outlined in this podcast. Just as most marketers are more than happy to buy data, even when not knowing the underlying source of that data. No offense to the parties but marketing is marketing. Just as it is in companies. Data will be used to gain an advantage in the market. Understanding the impacts of our decisions and the values of others is an ongoing area of growth for all of us. Even when we have quotas on sales qualified leads to be delivered.  Now let's talk about data sovereignty. Someone pays for everything. The bigger and more lucrative the business, the more that has to be paid to keep organizations necessarily formed to support an innovation alive. If you aren't paying for a good or service, then you yourself are the commodity. In social media, this is represented in the form of a company making their money from data about you and from the ads you see. The only other viable business model used is to charge for the service, like a Premium LinkedIn account as opposed to the ones used by us proletariat.   Our devices can see so much about us. They know our financial transactions, where we go, what we buy, what content we consume, and apparently what our opinions and triggers are. Sometimes, that data can be harnessed to show us ads. Ads about things to buy. Ads about apps to install. Ads about elections. My crazy uncle Billy sends me routine invitations to take personality quizzes. No thanks. Never done one. Why? I worked on one of the first dozen Facebook apps. A simple rock, paper, scissors game. At the time, it didn't at all seem weird to me as a developer that there was an API endpoint to get a list of friends from within my app. It's how we had a player challenge other players in a game. It didn't seem weird that I could also get a list of their friends. And it didn't seem weird that I could get a lot of personal data on people through that app. I mean I had to display their names and photos when they played a game, right? I just wanted to build a screen to invite friends to play the app. I had to show a photo so you could see who you were playing. And to make the game more responsive I needed to store the data in my own SQL tables. It didn't seem weird then. I guess it didn't seem weird until it did.  What made it weird was the introduction of highly targeted analytics and retargeting. I have paid for these services. I have benefited from these services in my professional life and to some degree I have helped develop some. I've watched the rise of large data warehouses. I've helped buy phone numbers and other personally identifiable information of humans and managed teams of sellers to email and call those humans. Ad targeting, drip campaigns, lead scoring, and providing very specific messages based on attributes you know about a person are all a part of the modern sales and marketing machine at any successful company.  And at some point, it went from being crazy how much information we had about people to being - well, just a part of doing business. The former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix once said “From Mad Men in the day to Math Men today.” From Don Draper to Betty's next husband Henry (a politician) there are informal ties between advertising, marketing and politics. Just as one of the founders of SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica had ties with royals having dated one and gone to school with others in political power. But there have also always been formal ties. Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick was the first colonial newspaper in America and was formally suppressed after its first edition in 1690. But the Boston News-Letter was formally subsidized in 1704. Media and propaganda. Most newspapers were just straight up sponsoring or sponsored by a political platform in the US until the 1830s. To some degree, that began with Ben Franklin's big brother James Franklin in the early 1700s with the New England Courant. Franklin would create partnerships for content distribution throughout the colonies, spreading his brand of moral virtue. And the papers were stoking the colonies into revolution. And after the revolution Hamilton instigated American Minerva as the first daily paper in New York - to be a Federalist paper. Of course, the Jeffersonian Republicans called him an “incurable lunatic.” And yet they still guaranteed us the freedom of press.  And that freedom grew to investigative reporting, especially during the Progressive Era, from the tail end of the 19th century up until the start of the roaring twenties. While Teddy Roosevelt would call them Muckrakers, their tradition extends from Nellie Bly and Fremont Older to Seymour Hersch, Kwitny, even the most modern Woodward and Bernstein. They led to stock reform, civic reforms, uncovering corruption, exposing crime in labor unions, laying bare monopolistic behaviors, improving sanitation and forcing us to confront racial injustices. They have been independent of party affiliation and yet constantly accused over the last hundred years of being against whomever is in power at the time. Their journalism extended to radio and then to television. I think the founders would be proud of how journalism evolved and also unsurprised as to some of the ways it has devolved. But let's get back to someone is always paying. The people can subscribe to a newspaper but the advertising is a huge source of revenue. With radio and television flying across airwaves and free, advertising exclusively became what paid for content and the ensuing decades became the golden age of that industry. And politicians bought ads. If there is zero chance a politician can win a state, why bother buying ads in that state. That's a form of targeting with a pretty simple set of data.  In Mad Men, Don is sent to pitch the Nixon campaign. There has always been a connection between disruptive new mediums and politics. Offices have been won by politicians able to gain access to early printing presses to spread their messages to the masses, those connected to print media to get articles and advertising, by great orators at the advent of the radio, and by good-looking charismatic politicians first able to harness television - especially in the Mad Men fueled ad exec inspired era that saw the Nixon campaigns in the 60s. The platforms to advertise become ubiquitous, they get abused, and then they become regulated. After television came news networks specifically meant to prop up an agenda, although unable to be directly owned by a party. None are “fake news” per se, but once abused by any they can all be cast in doubt, even if most especially done by the abuser.  The Internet was no different. The Obama campaign was really the first that leveraged social media and great data analytics to orchestrate what can be considered to really be the first big data campaign. And after his campaign carried him to a first term the opposition was able to make great strides in countering that. Progress is often followed by lagerts who seek to subvert the innovations of an era. And they often hire the teams who helped with previous implementations.  Obama had a chief data scientist, Rayid Ghani. And a chief analytics officer. They put apps in the hands of canvassers and they mined Facebook data from Facebook networks of friends to try and persuade voters. They scored voters and figured out how to influence votes for certain segments. That was supplemented by thousands of interviews and thousands of hours building algorithms. By 2012 they were pretty confident they knew which of the nearly 70 million Americans that put him in the White House. And that gave the Obama campaign the confidence to spend $52 million in online ads against Romney's $26 million to bring home the win. And through all that the Democratic National Committee ended up with information on 180 million voters. That campaign would prove the hypothesis that big data could win big elections. Then comes the 2016 election. Donald Trump came from behind, out of a crowded field of potential Republican nominees, to not only secure the Republican nomination for president but then to win that election. He won the votes to be elected in the electoral college while losing the popular vote. That had happened when John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824, although it took a vote in the House of Representatives to settle that election. Rutherford B Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden in 1876 in the electoral college but lost the popular vote. And it happened again when Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888. And in 2000 when Bush beat Gore. And again when Trump beat Hillary Clinton. And he solidly defeated her in the electoral college with 304 to her 227 votes.  Every time it happens, there seems to be plenty of rhetoric about changing the process. But keep in mind the framers built the system for a reason: to give the constituents of every state a minimum amount of power to elect officials that represent them. Those two represent the number of senators for the state and then the state receives one for each member of the house of representatives. States can choose how the electors are instructed to vote. Most states (except Maine and Nebraska) have all of their electors vote for a single ticket, the one that won the state. Most of the states instruct their elector to vote based on who won the popular vote for their state. Once all the electors cast their votes, Congress counts the votes and the winner of the election is declared.  So how did he come from behind? One easy place to blame is data. I mean, we can blame data for putting Obama into the White House, or we can accept a message of hope and change that resonated with the people. Just as we can blame data for Trump or accept a message that government wasn't effective for the people. Since this is a podcast on technology, let's focus on data for a bit. And more specifically let's look at the source of one trove of data used for micro-targeting, because data is a central strategy for most companies today. And it was a central part of the past four elections.  We see the ads on our phones so we know that companies have this kind of data about us. Machine learning had been on the rise for decades. But a little company called SCL was started In 1990 as the Behavioral Dynamics Institute by a British ad man named Nigel Oakes after leaving Saatchi & Saatchi. Something dangerous is when you have someone like him make this kind of comparison “We use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler.” Behavioural Dynamics studied how to change mass behavior through strategic communication - which US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Robert Hastings described in 2008 as the “synchronization of images, actions, and words to achieve a desired effect.” Sounds a lot like state conducted advertising to me. And sure, reminiscent of Nazi tactics. You might also think of it as propaganda. Or “pay ops” in the Vietnam era. And they were involved in elections in the developing world. In places like the Ukraine, Italy, South Africa, Albania, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, even India. And of course in the UK. Or at least on behalf of the UK and whether directly or indirectly, the US.  After Obama won his second term, SCL started Cambridge Analytica to go after American elections. They began to assemble a similar big data warehouse. They hired people like Brittany Kaiser who'd volunteered for Obama and would become director of Business Development.  Ted Cruz used them in 2016 but it was the Trump campaign that was really able to harness their intelligence. Their principal investor was Robert Mercer, former CEO of huge fund Renaissance Technologies. He'd gotten his start at IBM Research working on statistical machine translation and was recruited in the 90s to apply data modeling and computing resources to financial analysis. This allowed them to earn nearly 40% per year on investments. An American success story. He was key in the Brexit vote, donating analytics to Nigel Farage and an early supporter of Breitbart News.  Cambridge Analytica would get involved in 44 races in the 2014 midterm elections. By 2016, Project Alamo was running at a million bucks a day in Facebook advertising. In the documentary The Great Hack, they claim this was to harvest fear. And Cambridge Analytica allowed the Trump campaign to get really specific with targeting. So specific that they were able to claim to have 5,000 pieces of data per person.  Enter whistleblower Christopher Wylie who claims over a quarter million people took a quick called “This is Your Digital Life” which exposed the data of around 50 million users. That data was moved off Facebook servers and stored in a warehouse where it could be analyzed and fields merged with other data sources without the consent of the people who played the game or the people who were in their friend networks. Dirty tactics.  Alexander Nix admitted to using bribery stings and prostitutes to influence politicians. So it should be as no surprise that they stole information on well over 50 million Facebook users in the US alone. And of course then they lied about it when being investigated by the UK for Russian interference and fake news in the lead to the Brexit referendum. Investigations go on.  After investigations started piling up, some details started to emerge. This is Your Digital Life was written by Dr Spectre. It gets better. That's actually Alexandr Kogan for Cambridge Analytica. He had received research funding from the University of St Petersburg and was then lecturing at the Psychology department at the University of Cambridge. It would be easy to make a jump that he was working for the Russkies but here's the thing, he also got research funding from Canada, China, the UK, and the US. He claimed he didn't know what the app would be used for. That's crap. When I got a list of friends and friends friends who I could spider through, I parsed the data and displayed it on a screen as a pick list. He piped it out to a data warehouse. When you do that you know exactly what's happening with it.  So the election comes and goes. Trump wins. And people start asking questions. As they do when one party wins the popular vote and not the electoral college. People misunderstand and think you can win a district due to redistricting in most states and carry the state without realizing most are straight majority. Other Muckraker reporters from around the world start looking into Brexit and US elections and asking questions.  Enter Paul-Olivier Dehaye. While an assistant professor at the University of Zurich he was working on Coursera. He started asking about the data collection. The word spread slowly but surely. Then enter American professor David Carroll, who sued Cambridge Analytica to see what data they had on him. Dehaye contributed to his Subject Access request and suddenly the connections between Cambridge Analytica and Brexit started to surface, as did the connection between Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign, including photos of the team working with key members of the campaign. And ultimately of the checks cut.  Cause there's always a money trail.  I've heard people claim that there was no interference in the 2016 elections, in Brexit, or in other elections. Now, if you think the American taxpayer didn't contribute to some of the antics by Cambridge Analytica before they turned their attention to the US, I think we're all kidding ourselves. And there was Russian meddling in US elections and illegally obtained materials were used, whether that's emails on servers then leaked to WikiLeaks or stolen Facebook data troves. Those same tactics were used in Brexit. And here's the thing, it's been this way for a long, long time - it's just so much more powerful today than ever before. And given how fast data can travel, every time it happens, unless done in a walled garden, the truth will come to light.  Cambridge Analytica kinda' shut down in 2017 after all of this came to light. What do I mean by kinda? Well, former employees setup a company called Emerdata Limited who then bought the SCL companies. Why? There were contracts and data. They brought on the founder of Blackwater, Mercer's daughter Rebekah, and others to serve on the board of directors and she was suddenly the “First Lady of the Alt-Right.” Whether Emerdata got all of the company, they got some of the scraped data from 87 million users. No company with the revenues they had goes away quietly or immediately.  Robert Mercer donated the fourth largest amount in the 2016 presenting race. He was also the one who supposedly introduced Trump to Steve Bannon. In the fallout of the scandals if you want to call them that, Mercer stepped down from Renaissance and sold his shares of Breitbart to his daughters. Today, he's a benefactor of the Make America Number 1 Super PAC and remains one of the top donors to conservative causes.  After leaving Cambridge Analytica, Nix was under investigations for a few years before settling with the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to delete illegally obtained data and settled with the UK Secretary of State that he had offered unethical services and agreed to not act as a director of another company for at least 7 years.  Brittany Kaiser flees to Thailand and is now a proponent of banning political advertising on Facebook and being able to own your own data.  Facebook paid a $5 billion fine for data privacy violations and have overhauled their APIs and privacy options. It's better but not great. I feel like they're doing as well as they can and they've been accused of tampering with feeds by conservative and liberal media outlets alike. To me, if they all hate you, you're probably either doing a lot right, or basically screwing all of it up. I wouldn't be surprised to see fines continue piling up.  Kogan left the University of Cambridge in 2018. He founded Philometrics, a firm applying big data and AI to surveys. Their website isn't up as of the recording of this episode. His Tumblr seems to be full of talk about acne and trying to buy cheat codes for video games these days.  Many, including Kogan, have claimed that micro-targeting (or psychographic modeling techniques) against large enhanced sets of data isn't effective. If you search for wedding rings and I show you ads for wedding rings then maybe you'll buy my wedding rings. If I see you bought a wedding ring, I can start showing you ads for wedding photographers and bourbon instead. Hey dummy, advertising works. Disinformation works. Analyzing and forecasting and modeling with machine learning works. Sure, some is snake oil. But early adopters made billions off it. Problem is, like that perfect gambling system, you wouldn't tell people about something if it means you lost your edge. Sell a book about how to weaponize a secret and suddenly you probably are selling snake oil.   As for regulatory reactions, can you say GDPR and all of the other privacy regulations that have come about since? Much as Sarbanes-Oxley introduced regulatory controls for corporate auditing and transparency, we regulated the crap out of privacy. And by regulated I mean a bunch of people that didn't understand the way data is stored and disseminated over APIs made policy to govern it. But that's another episode waiting to happen. Suffice it to say the lasting impact to the history of computing is both the regulations on privacy and the impact to identity providers and other API endpoints, were we needed to lock down entitlements to access various pieces of information due to rampant abuses.  So here's the key question in all of this: did the data help Obama and Trump win their elections? It might have moved a few points here and there. But it was death by a thousand cuts. Mis-steps by the other campaigns, political tides, segments of American populations desperately looking for change and feeling left behind while other segments of the population got all the attention, foreign intervention, voting machine tampering, not having a cohesive Opponent Party and so many other aspects of those elections also played a part. And as Hari Seldon-esque George Friedman called it in his book, it's just the Storm Before the Calm.  So whether the data did or did not help the Trump campaign, the next question is whether using the Cambridge Analytica data was wrong? This is murky. The data was illegally obtained. The Trump campaign was playing catchup with the maturity of the data held by the opposition. But the campaign can claim they didn't know that the data was illegally obtained. It is illegal to employ foreigners in political campaigns and Bannon was warned about that. And then-CEO Nix was warned. But they were looking to instigate a culture war according to Christopher Wylie who helped found Cambridge Analytica. And look around, did they?  Getting data models to a point where they have a high enough confidence interval that they are weaponizable takes years. Machine learning projects are very complicated, very challenging, and very expensive. And they are being used by every political campaign now insofar as the law allows. To be honest though, troll farms of cheap labor are cheaper and faster. Which is why three more got taken down just a month before the recording of this episode. But AI doesn't do pillow talk, so eventually it will displace even the troll farm worker if only ‘cause the muckrakers can't interview the AI.  So where does this leave us today? Nearly every time I open Facebook, I see an ad to vote for Biden or an ad to vote for Trump. The US Director of National Intelligence recently claimed the Russians and Iranians were interfering with US elections. To do their part, Facebook will ban political ads indefinitely after the polls close on Nov. 3. They and Twitter are taking proactive steps to stop disinformation on their networks, including by actual politicians. And Twitter has actually just outright banned political ads.  People don't usually want regulations. But just as political ads in print, on the radio, and on television are regulated - they will need to be regulated online as well. As will the use of big data. The difference is the rich metadata collected in micro-targeting, the expansive comments areas, and the anonymity of those commenters. But I trust that a bunch of people who've never written a line of code in their life will do a solid job handing down those regulations. Actually, the FEC probably never built a radio - so maybe they will. So as the election season comes to a close, think about this. Any data from large brokers about you is fair game. What you're seeing in Facebook and even the ads you see on popular websites are being formed by that data. Without it, you'll see ads for things you don't want. Like the Golden Girls Season 4 boxed set. Because you already have it. But with it, you'll get crazy uncle Billy at the top of your feed talking about how the earth is flat. Leave it or delete it, just ask for a copy of it so you know what's out there. You might be surprised, delighted, or even a little disgusted by that site uncle Billy was looking at that one night you went to bed early. But don't, don't, don't think that any of this should impact your vote. Conservative, green, liberal, progressive, communist, social democrats, or whatever you ascribe to. In whatever elections in your country or state or province or municipality. Go vote. Don't be intimated. Don't let fear stand in the way of your civic duty. Don't block your friends with contrary opinions. If nothing else listen to them. They need to be heard. Even if uncle Billy just can't be convinced the world is round. I mean, he's been to the beach. He's been on an airplane. He has GPS on his phone… And that site. Gross. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so, so, so lucky to have you. Have a great day. 

This week on Turnout, Katie Couric explores how disinformation is used to suppress the vote and how it’s being tackled by activists and citizens alike. While disinformation has been used to subvert the voting process for decades, long before the internet, it is now thriving online like never before. “Bad actors” are lurking behind your screen and on your social media platforms, eager to sew chaos and distrust in the election system. But, fear not! There’s hope and also something YOU can do. Jesse Littlewood from Common Cause shares tips for how to spot disinformation on the internet and what to do about it (hint: don’t engage!). And, in an effort to provide some sort of check to Facebook’s unbalanced power, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr tells us how her group, the “Real Facebook Oversight Board,” plans to hold Mark Zuckerberg’s feet to the fire.  More about the guests and organizations featured in this episode: Jesse Littlewood is the vice president for campaigns at Common Cause. As part of its election protection work, Common Cause has launched a Stop Cyber Suppression program, where you can report disinformation or join the Common Cause Action Team’s Social Media Monitoring program. Carole Cadwalladr is a British Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica story after working with whistleblower Christopher Wylie for a year. The Real Facebook Oversight Board

During this episode, we discuss with COL Mike Jackson and Dr. Paul Lieber their recently co-authored article “Countering Disinformation: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?”. Referencing Richard Stengle’s recent book: Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About it, Mike and Paul make the case that well intentioned people frequently resort to “tribalism” which has a nonproductive effect. In 2015, Mike was part of a EUCOM and Department of State combined effort called the Russia Information Group (or RIG); he recounts the stand up of the RIG and relates lessons learned for improving information operations going forward. We conclude by discussing what’s at stake for America and our allies. Interested listeners should also check out: Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie. Click here for full show notes & resources Colonel Michael Jackson is Chief for Plans, Policy, and Partnerships at the Cyber National Mission Force. He was previously the Senior Army Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. COL Jackson has served as an Information Operations officer since 2003 at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels -- collaborating with interagency partners, NATO Allies, and with partner nations. Dr. Paul Lieber is COLSA Corporation’s Chief Scientist (Data & Social Science), where he specializes in communication influence. A Board Member of the Information Professionals Association, he previously served as the Command Writer for two USSOCOM Commanders, likewise Strategic Communication Advisor to Special Operations Command-Australia. Within academic environs, Dr. Lieber was full-time Graduate faculty at both civilian and military institutions. Find out more about the Virtual Panel on Convergence and Information Advantage, which is co-sponsored by IPA and AFCEA Alamo Chapter. IPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, you can connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

How should America respond to leadership whose knowing, intentional lies and actions killed more Americans than “the enemy“ in North Korea, North Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan over a 70 year period?There is so much fake information on Facebook, that it is difficult to see what is true and what is a lie. Judd Legum, founder of Popular.info joins Thom to discuss why Facebook is tilted toward the Right and away from the Left. Are you taking Facebook poison?

Quantitative easing is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys government bonds or other financial assets in order to inject money into the economy to expand economic activity. But what exactly does that mean? In today’s episode, Benjamin and Cameron are going to address this topic, avoiding highly politicized aspects, like whether or not central banks should be involved in the economy in the first place, and focusing purely on the operational perspective of quantitative easing – what is it, how it works, and what the intended transmission mechanisms are. Benjamin explains what he has learned through his extensive research, from what money printing and the stock market have to do with one another, where the money for loans comes from, how central banks can influence lending rates, and the difference between regular open market operations and quantitative easing. We also cover how quantitative easing works, the relationship between bank reserves and money in the economy, and what causes inflation, as well as the effect of quantitative easing has on stock prices (if any). We also catch up on recent news stories, and Cameron takes us through five key personal finance lessons we can learn from this crisis. If you’re looking to understand quantitative easing, this episode will hopefully become a useful resource! Tune in today.   Key Points From This Episode: This week’s book of the week is Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Canadian, Christopher Wylie [0:04:38] A chart showing the ratio of the Nasdaq 100 index divided by the Russell 2000 [0:08:22] University endowment sued for active investing by 94-year-old Clarence Herbst. [0:10:02] This was not the first time Clarence Herbst had an issue with his alma mater. [0:13:05] Multimillion-dollar mismanagement of public pension funds in Maryland, 2014. [0:13:22] Benjamin introduces the main topic, quantitative easing (QE), a central bank action. [0:14:42] What do money printing and the stock market have to do with one another? [0:17:37] You can summarize money as a social construct that facilitates economic activity. [0:20:06] As long as there are credit-worthy borrowers, banks will print money out of thin air. [0:22:28] The distinction between central banks and private banks, which interact with customers and have to monitor their net flow of money. [0:25:27] Open market operations allow a central bank to influence overnight lending rates. [0:28:30] The difference between regular open market operations and QE. [0:33:14] A couple of theories about how QE might work, like the portfolio balance theory. [0:37:42] There is no relationship between reserves and money in the economy. [0:41:11] What causes inflation? It’s not reserves! Demand for loans drives demand for loans. [0:43:07] What about the effect of QE on stock prices? We would expect a positive impact. [0:45:14] Money is this medium that facilitates economic activity and that's all it does. [0:47:40] Five key personal finance lessons we can learn from this crisis: Stocks are volatile [0:50:35] Debt is dangerous and emergency funds have a very important purpose. [0:50:35] Don’t stop spending, always prepare for the worst – disability insurance is crucial! [0:54:51] Cameron still wants to understand how fee-free trading platforms make money – nothing is for free! [0:50:35]

Mindf*ck, le livre de Christopher Wylie en français et en anglais.

Gång på gång hamnar Sverige i toppen på listor över länder som är icke-korrumperade, alltså där graden av korruption är låg. Men innebär det att korruption inte finns här? Natali Engstam Phalén är gäst i dagens Perspektiv. Hon har jobbat som advokat på en av landets största byråer, och då med antikorruption som specialitet, samt EU- och konkurrensrättsliga frågeställningar kopplat till offentlig upphandling. Sedan några år är hon generalsekreterare för Institutet mot Mutor. I avsnittet pratar vi om vilka mutor som är vanligast och vilka branscher som är de mest drabbade och om mutor som man inte tänker på som just mutor.Natalies rekommendationerTV: House of Cards Film: The Whistleblower Bok: De samhälleliga institutionernas kvalitet - Bo RothsteinPodd: Perspektiv: Om Cambridge Analytica-skandalen, sedd inifrån - med Christopher Wylie. ---Perspektiv är en podd från Vad Vi Vet @vadvivet .Producent: Gabriella Lahti. Tekniker: Matti Palm. Programledare: Per Grankvist Följ Per på Instagram: https://instagram.com/pergrankvist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Fuisz is co-founder of Veriphix and a marketer who believes in building great brands. He does so with a sophisticated system that, on the surface, appears simple and direct; however, it’s built on his astute observations of consumer behavior, the clever use of data, and most importantly, it’s related to Annie Duke’s use of bets to measure future behaviors. We wanted to talk to John because his work tracks the seemingly subtle, yet extremely powerful, ways our buying and voting behaviors can be influenced. Veriphix connects brands with users with three primary tools: First, by tracking emotional vectors, to understand how we feel about things on a weekly basis by asking them to make bets about what they expect to feel. Second by monitoring the emotional triggers that get us to do the things we do. Lastly, he watches for the implicit delta, the measure of the emotional impact of an issue. And he does so with very strict ethical standards. John believes that marketers should elevate their messaging to build great brands, not just influence our subconscious decision making. He wants to dilute the impact that nefarious actors have on consumers (and voters) by challenging us to a meaningful first step. He notes, “We want to believe we’re rational humans, but to have an effective defense [against bad actors], we have to admit we’re irrational.” Please take a moment to rate Behavioral Grooves or leave us a review. Our podcast doesn’t have advertisers; rather, we rely on listeners like to you help us get the word out. Your help is greatly appreciated. We hope you enjoy our conversation with John Fuisz. Kurt Nelson, PhD: @WhatMotivates Tim Houlihan: @THoulihan © 2020 Behavioral Grooves   Links John Fuisz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fuisz/ Veriphix: https://veriphix.com/ Annie Duke: https://www.annieduke.com/ “Thinking In Bets”: https://www.amazon.com/Annie-Duke/e/B001K88E4U/ Claire McCaskill “Korea”: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/20/17759574/midterm-russia-china-north-korea-iran-hack-cyber DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/ Christopher Wylie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wylie “Mind Fuck”: https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-America/dp/1984854631 IRB: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/institutional-review-boards-frequently-asked-questions Ozan Varol “Think Like a Rocket Scientist”: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Rocket-Scientist-Strategies/dp/1541762592 Common Biases and Heuristics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XHpBr0VFcaT8wIUpr-9zMIb79dFMgOVFRxIZRybiftI/edit# Charlotte Blank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-blank-52554a2/ Jeff Kreisler: http://jeffkreisler.com/ Neuromarketing World Forum: https://www.neuromarketingworldforum.com/ Darren Brown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXe1CokWqQ John Bargh and Replication: https://replicationindex.com/2019/03/17/raudit-bargh/ Moral Foundations: https://moralfoundations.org/ Kids Priming video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=TLf2gOrL1iM&app=desktop   Musical Links Depeche Mode: http://www.depechemode.com/ Sharon Van Etten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7sTHoeH0eA Gary Clark, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNjl8M Guy Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Clark Ziggy Marley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_Marley New Order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(band) The National: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_(band) Sha-Na-Na: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha_Na_Na Sinead O’Connor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor Wolfman Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack Iron & Wine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_%26_Wine Calexico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calexico_(band) Madison Cunningham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VSDUqVmnI

Guest host, Jefferson Smith recaps the sobering recent events in Washington and beyond, encouraging listeners to call in with their own stories of hope and participation. Jeff recalls his own organizing of the Oregon Bus Project which later evolved into the Next Up action fund for mobilizing change. Lee Fang of the Intercept joins Jefferson Smith to discuss the delayed vote results in Iowa, Bernie Sanders' near tie with Pete Buttigieg and the implications this brings up. Book Club readings from "Walking Your Blues Away" by Thom Hartmann, "It Came from Something Awful" by Dale Beran, "Mindf*ck" by Christopher Wylie.

'Contained failures'The Roches, Mark Hodkinson, Lisa Edgar, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Martin Parr, BBC Dance Orchestra feat. Dan Donovan, Ezra Klein, The Granville Williams Orchestra, Michael Lewis, Steven Wright, Robert Wyatt, Lecuona Cuba Boys, The Triffids, George Kelsall, Brian Eno, Elizabeth Cotten, Alliace Makaiadi, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Malcolm Gladwell, Miles Davis, Christopher Wylie, The Ink Spots, Antobals Cubans, Talking Heads, Nino Rota

'Contained failures' The Roches, Mark Hodkinson, Lisa Edgar, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Martin Parr, BBC Dance Orchestra feat. Dan Donovan, Ezra Klein, The Granville Williams Orchestra, Michael Lewis, Steven Wright, Robert Wyatt, Lecuona Cuba Boys, The Triffids, George Kelsall, Brian Eno, Elizabeth Cotten, Alliace Makaiadi, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Malcolm Gladwell, Miles Davis, Christopher Wylie, The Ink Spots, Antobals Cubans, Talking Heads, Nino Rota

Well I'll be like a chunk of ice melting off the doorknob at the end of a long ski vacation Lets look at movies and shows about the intriguing phenomenon of whistle blowers. Lets look at some great examples in film and streaming: Brittany Kaiser and Christopher Wylie in The Great Hack. A tobacco executive in The Insider, Journalists and their editor in Shattered Glass. Lets go through our listener mailbag. The work of Steve Zahn and Billy Zane will figure prominently in today's quiz questions.And Brad, Donnie and I will bring you some lilting music from Grondle to close the showCatch Brad's latest work at www.bradcolerick.com. This weeks music at the Blue Guitar in the Arroyo at South Pasadena Wednesday Jan 22 7:00pmLicity Collins, Bernie Larsen,Thursday Jan 23 7:00pmAdam Levy, Raph Humphrey, Carey Frank Organ Trio

Too often, in our estimation, people make recommendations to us with the intent to improve our life but the effect on us is the opposite of that. Rather than completely engaging us, some recommendations or pieces of advice actually overpower any enthusiasm we might for following up. This is especially true when the recommendation is too big to get our heads around. Casual comments like, “Oh, you should read that book,” or, “You should go to Malaysia,” or, “You should check out that podcast series,” are often too much for us to process. They’re all well-intended, and could be terrific recommendations, but thinking about starting a massive new book in an already jam-packed life can be the opposite of engaging: sometimes, it’s demotivating.    So in this Grooving Session, we use a behavioral science hack to START SMALL and we’re recommending our favorite podcast episodes (produced by other podcasters!) to our listeners. We think you’ll like these specific podcast episodes by some of our favorite hosts on some of our favorite topics. And because they’re itty-bitty single episodes, we hope you can start small and check some of them out in the links below. Coming soon! We are launching a new podcast (a new channel in the podcaster’s vernacular) and it’s called Weekly Grooves. Weekly Grooves will be a weekly review of topical issues in the media during the week done through a behavioral science commentary. This will launch in late January 2020, and we hope you’ll check it out. Please take 23 seconds right now to give us a rating. A review only takes 57 seconds, so you can do that, too! Reviews and 5-star ratings play a positive role in getting Behavioral Grooves promoted to new listeners when they’re out browsing for an interesting behavioral science podcast. As always, thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy lots of great episodes from other podcasters!   Happiness Lab: Laurie Santos, PhD. Make ‘Em Laugh. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/make-em-laugh Canned laugh tracks positively affect our experience even when we KNOW they’re canned! Great production and a cool person.   Choiceology: Katy Milkman, PhD. Take the Deal. https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/choiceology-season-4-episode-4 Danny Kahneman, Colin Camerer, and Luis Green tell the tales of our flawed decision making – even when the consequences are big! Terrific interviewer. Great production.   Big Brains: Paul Rand. Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier. https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/why-talking-strangers-will-make-you-happier-nicholas-epley Nick Epley, PhD discussed the importance of talking to strangers and how it will make YOU happier.   Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates: John Donvan. Is Social Media Good for Democracy? https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/social-media-good-democracy-0 Fascinating discussion about the pro’s and con’s of social media.   The David Gilmour Podcast: David Gilmour. The Fender Stratocaster #0001. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-the-fender-stratocaster-0001/id1463321559?i=1000441421346 Yes. It really does exist and David Gilmour owns it and cherishes it.   You Are Not So Smart: David McRaney. Pluralistic Ignorance: The psychology behind why people don’t speak out against, and even defend, norms they secretly despise. https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/157-pluralistic-ignorance A terrific episode exploring how social norms are perpetuated even when the majority don’t agree with them.   Song Exploder: Hrishikesh Hirway. Sheryl Crow: Redemption Day. http://songexploder.net/sheryl-crow/songexploder161-sherylcrow How songwriters come to write and record songs is amazing to me and this is a very articulate songwriter.   O Behave: Ogilvy Consulting. Dollars and Sense. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/o-behave/episode-16-dollars-and-sense-with-jeff-kreisler-an/ Jeff Kreisler (one of our favorites) and Rory Sutherland dig into Jeff’s work in behavioral finance.   Radio Lab: Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. Smarty Plants. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/smarty-plants This episode explores the amazingly brainy behaviors of brainless things: plants!   Happiness Lab: Laurie Santos, PhD. The Unhappy Millionaire https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/the-unhappy-millionaire This episode explores how we don’t really understand what makes us happy…with Dan Gilbert    The Knowledge Project: Shane Parrish. Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits https://fs.blog/neil-pasricha/ Looks at habits that can make you happier or not   The Science of Success: Matt Bodner. Guest = Jonathan Haidt https://www.successpodcast.com/show-notes/2018/9/12/three-dangerous-ideas-that-are-putting-our-society-at-risk-with-dr-jonathan-haidt Three dangerous ideas that are putting our society at risk – Looking at the anti-fragile movement that Haidt looks at how we need to allow Coddling the American Mind.  Overprotecting kids and not letting them have failures…question feelings   Hustle and Flowchart Podcast: Matt Wolfe and Joe Fier. Therapy Session (153) – T&C, Podfest, Selling Shirts and Affiliate Marketing https://evergreenprofits.com/therapy-sessions-podfest-affiliate/ Matt and Joe discuss a number of things that have been going on with them and some insights on podcasting     Smart Drug Smarts: Jesse Lawler. Aphantasia with Dr. Joel Pearson https://smartdrugsmarts.com/episodes/219-aphantasia/ Where Kurt found out about Aphantasia and realized that he had it.   Hidden Brain: Shanker Vedantam. Facts Aren’t Enough https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743195213/facts-arent-enough-the-psychology-of-false-beliefs A look at confirmation bias and how data doesn’t change our minds…Tali Sharot and Cailin O’Conner add insight (smallpox variolation)   Big Think Think Again: Jason Gotz. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America https://bigthink.com/podcast/cambridge-analytica © 2020 Behavioral Grooves  

Do you have a body? I do, but I was mostly unaware of this fact until somewhere in my mid-30s, when my life strategy of living like a bourbon-loving brain-in-a-vat became increasingly untenable. Since then, I’ve come to understand something that might have been obvious to you all along. The body’s not just a convenient support system for coming up with clever things to say—it’s how we experience the world. It’s most of what we mean by living. And for all its marvelous autonomy, it’s also wonderfully, bafflingly complex. My guest today is the author Bill Bryson. In his new book THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS, he has been kind enough to demystify it for us to the extent that that’s possible, and to help us revel in its mystery everywhere else. Bill is the beloved author of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING and A WALK IN THE WOODS, and I’m delighted to have him on the show.  Surprise conversation starters in this episode:  Excerpted from Think Again episode #215 with Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thom reflects on the passing of retired U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr., Donald Trump getting Boos and “Lock Him Up” chants at World Series Game 5, and studies the many reported deaths of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before last weekend's announcement. Judd Legum at Popular Information speaks with Thom about new news about facebook. Book Club reading, "Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America" by Christopher Wylie. Pam Vogel from Media Matters joins Thom to talk about the fairness doctrine and what Sinclair Broadcasting is doing. Sinclair Broadcasting had only one commentator, Boris Epstheyn who used to work for the Trump campaign and was briefly in the administration. He is now their chief political commentator. This gave just one editorial voice, and this gave no editorial balance. Thom reads from "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" by David E. McCraw. Pacifica Radio Board Vice Chair Sabrina Jacobs brings an update on the pause of New York's WBAI station.

Data is being used to influence elections and invade our privacy. In this episode of Ideas of the House, whistleblower Christopher Wylie and Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov explain why this is one of the most important issues of our age. Hosted by Lenore Taylor.

Christopher Wylie is a 30-year-old Canadian data specialist who moved to London a few years back, started working in political campaigns, and then became deeply involved in two of the biggest political events of his lifetime: the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump. He worked for Cambridge Analytica, the company that was caught harvesting data from millions of Facebook accounts and using it for political advertising purposes. We’d been warned for years it could happen, and it was the first time we saw how data could be used and weaponised to win an election. This is that story. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. You’ve probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they’re a company that did some nefarious things involving facebook and the 2016 US presidential elections. If you’re anything like me, you don’t know the half of it. If you get through this episode without wanting to move to a remote hut in the Arctic circle, I will personally refund this hour of your life. My guest today is Christopher Wylie, author of MindF*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America. in high school, he found himself on the outside of lots of social circles. Computers and hacker culture gave him community. Identity. From there, it’s a long strange trip through progressive politics in Canada to military Psy ops in London to helping Steve Bannon and the Billionaire Robert Mercer build the most powerful psychological weapon of mass destruction in existence—one that very likely won the presidency for Donald Trump and the Brexit vote. Chris was 24 at the time. When the scale and consequences of Cambridge Analytica got too big to ignore, he turned whistleblower—and none of our lives, his included, will ever be the same. Conversation starter: A clip from an upcoming episode with Ibram X. Kendi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reuters' Jeff Mason and NBC News producer Kailani Koenig join Chuck Todd, moderator of Meet the Press, to talk about the president's next moves in the impeachment challenge. And Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie talks to Chuck about his new book, Mindf*ck.

Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the White House barring a key witness from testifying in the impeachment injury. Danylo Lubkivsky, former Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister, weighs in on Ukraine's part in the current U.S. political crisis. Peter Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador, explains the dangers of President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from Northern Syria. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica Employee and whistleblower, to discuss his new book that reflects on the Facebook data mining scandal he exposed in 2018.

Reuters' Jeff Mason and NBC News producer Kailani Koenig join Chuck Todd, moderator of Meet the Press, to talk about the president's next moves in the impeachment challenge. And Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie talks to Chuck about his new book, Mindf*ck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Wylie https://twitter.com/chrisinsilico • Andrei Soldatov https://twitter.com/AndreiSoldatov ¿Debería crear un grupo de Telegram? Vota en la encuesta en twitter: https://twitter.com/gvisoc/status/1166463946200453120?s=20 Contacta conmigo en Twitter: https://twitter.com/gvisoc y en Telegram (sólo mensajes de texto

Carole Cadwalladr, a reporter for the Guardian and Observer, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the links between tech and political disinformation campaigns. In this episode: Cadwalladr's background; tech's impact on democracy; the "cancer" of the far-right internet; Google's lack of accountability; Cambridge Analytica and its co-founder Robert Mercer; talking to whistleblower Christopher Wylie; the links among Brexit, Donald Trump, and Russia; the danger of challenging an ideological billionaire like Mercer; how Facebook shot itself in the foot; at Facebook, "who knew what, when?"; Cadwalladr's viral TED Talk about social media and disinformation; "techno-fascism" and you; why the US press must push Facebook harder; what Cadwalladr would do if she were in charge; and is she still optimistic about tech? Recode Decode has been nominated for best technology podcast in this year’s People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Cast your vote for Recode Decode at https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup before July 31st. One vote per category. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part Two of our series on Artificial Intelligence, we unravel the inner workings of the internet brain, ever-growing in size...and in power.  How do we relate to the systems being built around us?  What is ethical AI? And how can our data shape and alter our reality? Join me as we peer into the future, that is also our present, with Christopher Wylie, the green-haired, nose-ringed whistle-blower on Cambridge Analytica, as well as quite the philosopher of tech. Chris sounds the alarm...and together we look for signs of how to be humanly conscious in the age of machines.  

On April 11, 2019 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British authorities after almost 7 years of asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy. Reviled by many and revered by others, Assange and Wikileaks became a magnet of controversy for over a decade thanks to their publishing leaked media like the Collateral Damage video and the Podesta emails. Wikileaks, however, was part of a broader movement called "hacktivism" that became increasingly popular in the early 2000's through work of the informal, online collective Anonymous. This movement raised increasingly relevant questions about whistleblowing, journalism, and transparency that have only became more pressing as the highly technological 21st century rolls forward with concerning revelations made public by whistleblowers like NSA contractor Edward Snowden and former Cambridge Analytica data consultant Christopher Wylie. Joining us on this edition of Parallax Views to unpack these issues is journalist, whistleblower, and former Anonymous associate Barret Brown of the Pursuance Project. Like Julian Assange, Barrett Brown ran afoul of government authorities due to his involvement with Anonymous eventually culminating in his arrest and a 63 month prison sentence in relation to the Stratfor email leaks case. Brown has written for such publications as The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, True/Slant, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and D Magazine as well as winning a National Magazine Award for his work at The Intercept. During the course of our discussion Brown tells his story and gives his takes on the arrest of Julian Assange and the media's coverage of it, the state of journalism, Wikileaks, Anonymous, The Intercept's shutdown of the Edward Snowden archive, and much. In addition, Brown fills us in on his latest endeavor the Pursuance Project and his hopes that it will continue the fight for transparency where others have failed. On the whole it's a candid conversation with Barret Brown that's sure to go down as one of Parallax Views' most explosive and controversial episodes to date. CHECK OUT THE PURSUANCE PROJECT Look Out for Barrett Brown's Upcoming Book My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir Show Notes: Anonymous (Wikipedia Entry) 2012–13 Stratfor Email Leak (Wikipedia Entry) HBGary (Wikipedia Entry) Video Footage of FBI Raid on Barrett Brown During an Online Video Chat Accidental Warrior: The Life and Time of Barrett Brown (Documentary) Relatively Free (Alex Winter's Short Documentary on Barrett Brown and His Release from Prison) Barrett Brown Archive @ The Intercept Barret Brown Archive @ D Magazine Barrett Brown Archive @ Medium Police arrest Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy in London (CNN) EXCLUSIVE: Assange arrested & escorted out of Ecuadorian Embassy (Ruptly/RT) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be punished for embarrassing the DC establishment by Jonathan Turley (USA Today) Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on the Arrest of Julian Assange (The Progressive) Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically. by Spencer Ackerman (Barrett Brown Vs Julian Assange; The Daily Beast) Barrett Brown's Statement on Julian Assange (April 4th 2019, Prior to and Predicting Assange's Arrest) WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: Expelled, Extradited, Undaunted. Is Journalism on Trial? (RT's The Big Picture) Snowden archives at great risk — As alarming as Assange's arrest (Justice Integrity Project) The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove by Maxwell Tani (The Daily Beast) The Intercept Bars Co-Founder From Meeting After Snowden Archive Shutdown by Maxwell Tani (The Daily Beast) Laura Poitras ‘Sickened’ By Layoffs at The Intercept (The Daily Beast) Why The Intercept Really Closed the Snowden Archive by Barrett Brown (Medium) The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald Responding to Criticism of the Snowden Archive's Shutdown Music: Metaphazic - Slipstream [ synthwave ] (Intro Collage) Metaphazic - Hydrophase [ synthwave ] (Intro Commentary) FSM Team – Flying Home [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet™ (Outro Commentary) SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWS ON PATREON!  

We kick off the Data Summit series of podcasts with the enigmatic Christopher Wylie. The New Yorker calls him “a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future”. Best known for his role in setting up – and then taking down – the cyberwarfare firm Cambridge Analytica, Chris has been listed in TIME100 Most Influential People in the World, Forbes' 30 Under 30, Politico's 50 Most Influential People in Politics and Business Insider's 100 Coolest People in Tech.  Interviewed by The Data Lab's CEO, Gillian Docherty, you do not want to miss this one.  All views and opinions expressed by our podcast participants are solely their opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Data Lab. The Data Lab does not warrant the completeness or accuracy of any statements made by our podcast participants. Interested in learning more about cyber security? Join us at our upcoming MeetUp discussing this topic - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-they-cant-see-it-they-wont-be-it-cyber-security-meetup-tickets-60063525622  

The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower discusses the way H&M can use artificial intelligence to curb waste production and reveals his new role with the fast-fashion giant. Wiley is joining H&M as its director of research. He will work closely with Arti Zeighami, the retailer’s head of AI and advanced analytics, exploring how AI can help fashion better tackle its sustainability crisis. Sign up for BoF’s Daily Digest newsletter here: http://bit.ly/BoFnews. Ready to become a BoF Professional? For a limited time, enjoy 25% discount on an annual membership, exclusively for podcast listeners. Simply, click here: http://bit.ly/2KoRRBH, select the Annual Package and use code PODCASTPRO at the checkout. For comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please e-mail: podcast@businessoffashion.com.For all sponsorship enquiries, it’s: advertising@businessoffashion.com.

The problem with social media isn't that it isn't working the way we intended - quite the opposite. They problem is that they work almost too good and how to you fix something that isn't broken? There are more things in play as well. Our confirmation biases act like mental algorithms creating filter bubbles that create a false sense of understanding of what's happening in the world. It's easy to forget that each and every one of have a responsibility not to share lies in social media, for not harassing others even if it's simpler than ever, and to remember to question our own view of the world. How all this works and how technology is actually making it harder to understand the world is the theme of my book "The big bubble", available everywhere.This is a topic I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and I’m so happy that Christopher Wylie agreed to sit down with me and discuss this with me. Mr Wylie is the whistler blower that made the Cambridge Analytica scandal possible, as he helped unveil how the British data intelligence company operated in order to manipulate data of millions of people in order to get them to vote Yes to Brexit and get Donald Trump elected.In front of a live audience in Stockholm, Sweden, he told me his story from start to end, revealed what it was like finding himself working for Steve Bannon, his current view on social networks, what it’s like to be de-platformed by Facebook and also told me why he went back to the fashion industry and accepted a job as head of research at H&M Group.This episode also includes me reading from my book ”The big bubble”, which is available on Amazon, Kindle and wherever you find books online.--- This episode was produced by VVV Media in collaboration with Acast. Producer: Gabriella Lahti. Host: Per Grankvist. Find Per on Twitter @pergrankvist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Det har alltid klingat falskt i mina öron när folk säger att internet är trasigt eller att sociala medier är att skylla för filterbubblor, spridandet av falska nyheter och ökat näthat. Tekniken funkar ju precis som det är tänkt, tjänsterna precis som vi programmerat dem till. Problemet är snarare att de funkar för bra och att vi inte hängt med i hur vi förhåller sig till den nya tekniken. Vi glömmer bort att vi har ett eget ansvar för att inte dela en massa lögner, för att inte hata bara för att det blivit lättare än någonsin, samt för att ifrågasätta oss själva och vår världsbild. Våra mentala fördomar fungerar som filter som är minst lika kraftfulla som de sociala medierna. Hur det fungerar och vad det innebär för vår förmåga att skaffa oss en vettig världsbild är ämnet för min senaste bok ”Den stora bubblan” (Mondial förlag).Vilka konsekvenser detta kan få för världen är något jag funderat mycket på, och jag är därför glad att Christopher Wylie tackade ja till att diskutera detta med mig. Han är visselblåsaren som bidrog till att the Guardian, The New York Times och Channel 4 gemensamt avslöjade Cambridge Analyticas försök att påverka Brexit-omröstningen och att få Donald Trump vald till president. Wylie är samtidigt medskyldig, då han programmerat många av de algoritmer som gjorde det möjligt att skräddarsy reklam utifrån människors politiska preferenser i syfte att få dem att välja rätt. Det blev ett långt och intressant samtal där Wylie berättade historien från början och inifrån, om hans syn på de sociala nätverkens ansvar och om hans nya jobb som forskningschef på ett av världens största modeföretag.Samtalet spelades in i Stockholm inför publik i samband med bokreleasen av ”Den stora bubblan”.BOKTIPSSom bonusmaterial till programmet finns en uppläsning av inledningen till boken som också ger dig en överblick över detta komplexa men viktiga ämne. Bonusmaterialet börjar vid 1.09.00Den stora bubblan - hur tekniken formar vår världsbild” av Per Grankvist finns som ljudbok, ebok och i tryckt upplaga. Du hittar den i välsorterade bokhandlare, på bibliotek och där du strömmar böcker.Perspektiv produceras av VVV Media för Vadvivet.set. Tack till Mondial förlag, Fotografiska Live och Elcim Yilmaz. Producent: Gabriella Lahti. Programledare: Per Grankvist Följ Per på Instagram: https://instagram.com/pergrankvist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Uno segue un disegno politico di stampo populista e sovranista. Ed è disposto a combattere la sua battaglia con tutti i mezzi della persuasione. L’altro è l’arma nelle sue mani, un genio della rete in grado di manipolare milioni di persone attraverso i social. Una storia che ci fa comprendere come l’ambizione può rendere insensibili ai rischi della manipolazione delle menti, ma che, allo stesso tempo, l’antidoto di questo grande veleno, è dentro di noi.Sembrano alleati. Diventeranno acerrimi nemici. E le loro vite cambieranno per sempre.Steve Bannon.Christopher Wylie.

The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower opened by revealing that the controversial firm weaponised fashion trends to target potential Trump supporters. Sign up for BoF’s Daily Digest newsletter here: http://bit.ly/BoFnews. Ready to become a BoF Professional? For a limited time, enjoy 25% discount on an annual membership, exclusively for podcast listeners. Simply, click here: http://bit.ly/2KoRRBH, select the Annual Package and use code PODCASTPRO at the checkout. For comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please e-mail: podcast@businessoffashion.com.For all sponsorship enquiries, it’s: advertising@businessoffashion.com.

Exclusive interview with Christopher Wylie, former director of research at Cambridge Analytica. In 2018, he became a whistleblower in the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. This interview was recorded in Bucharest, Romania, on November, 18th, 2018 by Dragos Stanca for UPGRADE radio show broadcasted by Radio Guerrilla.

Especialista belga ouvido pela CPI britânica no caso da empresa Cambridge Analytica, que pirateou dados do Facebook, explica como são criados os modelos matemáticos para influenciar eleitores e marcas O escândalo envolvendo a campanha de Donald Trump e a Cambridge Analytica, empresa criada pelo engenheiro de computação Robert Mercer e o ex-conselheiro do presidente americano, Steve Bannon, lançou o debate sobre a utilização de dados de internautas para influenciar os eleitores. No início do ano, Christopher Wylie, diretor do grupo britânico, revelou que a Cambridge Analytica pirateou dados pessoais de cerca de 87 milhões de usuários do Facebook, a maioria americanos. O objetivo: influenciar a votação na eleição presidencial dos EUA que levou à vitoria de Trump. No Brasil, a recente denúncia sobre o financiamento ilegal da campanha de Bolsonaro - empresários que teriam bancado disparos em massa contra o PT no aplicativo WhatsApp-  trouxe novamente à tona a discussão sobre a utilização dos dados dos internautas que circulam na web para influenciar o resultado nas urnas. A RFI Brasil entrevistou com exclusividade o matemático belga Paul-Olivier Delaye, fundador da empresa PersonalDataIo e especialista na proteção de dados. Ele foi consultado como expert na CPI aberta pelo Parlamento britânico em março de 2018, sobre o caso Cambridge Analytica. RFI - Uma das técnicas usadas na manipulação dos dados é a Psicometria, que ajuda a construir a personalidade dos indivíduos a partir dos traços que deixam na web quando estão conectados. Como podemos defini-la? Paul-Olivier Delaye - A Psicometria é uma teoria em Psicologia que não é aceita por todo mundo. Segundo essa teoria, podemos medir o perfil psicológico de alguém. A pessoa pode ser aberta, meticulosa, extrovertida, agradável ou neurótica. Essas cinco características por si só já definem um perfil psicológico. Num contexto político, emocional, elas têm um valor preditivo. Podemos prever como as pessoas vão reagir. RFI – Esse ainda é o método usado hoje atingir eleitores potenciais em uma campanha politica, por exemplo? POD - Novas técnicas emergiram, permitindo a criação do perfil de um indivíduo através da interação coletada de maneira massiva na Web, como, por exemplo, os “likes” no Facebook. A partir de um “like” podemos construir o perfil psicológico de um indivíduo. A vantagem, em relação a um questionário de Psicologia, como no caso da Psicometria, é a escala. A segunda vantagem é que podemos, usando Facebook, atingir pessoas com características psicológicas específicas que buscamos. RFI - Como surgiu essa técnica? POD - A principal delas foi desenvolvida na universidade de Cambridge. Os pesquisadores usaram questionários padrões de Psicologia para avaliar as pessoas. Em seguida, consultaram o perfil Facebook dos participantes dos estudos. A observação dos “likes” possibilitou um ajuste do questionário. Esse modelo também pode ser usado no outro sentido: construir o perfil psicológico de uma pessoa a partir dos “likes”. Os pesquisadores demonstraram que, a partir de 170 “likes”, o modelo criado é mais preditivo, ou seja, mais fiel à verdadeira personalidade do indivíduo do que seria a descrição do próprio parceiro em um casal. Em princípio, o algoritmo conhece você melhor do que seu marido ou esposa! RFI - Os “likes”devem ser públicos? POD - Os “likes” foram retirados do acesso público. Com o passar do tempo, foi necessário o uso de técnicas mais sutis para ter acesso a esses “likes”. Usamos diferentes técnicas. Seus amigos, por exemplo, podem ver seus “ likes” no Facebook. Se você integra um grupo, por exemplo, você expõe seus “likes” ao administrador do grupo. RFI - A conclusão é que não existe privacidade nas redes sociais. POD - As redes sociais ganham dinheiro encorajando as pessoas a compartilharem o máximo de informações possíveis sobre elas mesmas e entre seus amigos. Em seguida observam esse compartilhamento para manipular os dados que são coletados para fins publicitários. RFI - E no WhatsApp, os dados podem ser coletados da mesma forma? POD - Há uma diferença entre o Messenger do Facebook e o WhatsApp. Os dois pertencem ao Facebook, mas, pelo menos por enquanto, o conteúdo do WhatsApp é criptografado. Facebook pode ler uma mensagem no Messenger, mas não pode ler uma mensagem WhatsApp. Por outro lado, pode coletar os metadados associados à rede para uso publicitário. Facebook sabe, graças ao WhatsApp, quem é seu marido, sua família, sua empresa, o esporte que você pratica, etc. RFI - Como essas técnicas podem ser usadas em campanhas eleitorais? POD - Essas técnicas são usadas para incitar à viralização nas redes sociais e encorajar as pessoas a reagirem de uma certa maneira, compartilhando conteúdos que não correspondem necessariamente à verdade. E, graças a isso, dirigir o debate, ou a discussão pública, sobre temas bem específicos. Trata-se de uma ferramenta de manipulação da informação em grande escala. Além das cinco noções da Psicometria que defini antes usadas na construções de perfis influenciadores, há outras noções importantes: o que chamamos de locus of control (quem você responsabiliza pelas mudanças em sua vida? Você mesmo ou o destino?), need for cognition (a necessidade de pensar antes de tomar uma decisão) e need for affection (necessidade de sentir emocionalmente essa decisão antes de toma-la). Na construção dos algoritmos, podemos caracterizar as pessoas usando dados, e se percebemos que se alguém esta mais próximo do perfil need for affection, por exemplo, estamos diante de uma pessoa que pode ser facilmente influenciada pela emoção, sem nenhuma, ou pouca reflexão. Desta forma, se compartilharmos com esse indivíduo um conteúdo político, que tem bastante ressonância, isso vai encorajá-lo a compartilhar esse conteúdo sem pensar. Os efeitos podem ser muito surpreendentes em termos de feedback no Facebook. Esse pequeno grupo compartilhará o conteúdo entre si, e isso, por conta da natureza comercial da rede, levará o algoritmo de Facebook a buscar outras pessoas com as mesmas características. Isso levará naturalmente a uma viralização com pouca reflexão sobre o que foi compartilhado. O problema é quando focamos apenas nessas pessoas. RFI - E o chamado “dark post”? POD - É uma outra ferramenta. Podemos fazer circular uma mensagem dentro de uma comunidade, sem que outras pessoas, como jornalistas ou ONGs, possam acessar os conteúdos que circulam nesse grupo. Isso impede a visão de um debate aberto e democrático em um contexto de eleições. Há pessoas que se deixam influenciar, não sabemos como, com falsas informações que circulam, mas sem feedback crítico sobre essas informações. RFI - Podemos comparar o que acontece no Brasil com a campanha eleitoral americana? POD - Observamos uma esfera política cada vez mais complexa para os jornalistas, que têm dificuldade em acompanhar essa dinâmica. Foi o que aconteceu na campanha americana. Os jornalistas tinham problemas para explicar o que estava acontecendo, justamente porque havia informações que circulavam em redes nas quais eles não tinham acesso. O paralelo entre o Brasil e os EUA é esse: alguns atores conseguem manipular as redes eletrônicas de maneira mais eficaz que os jornalistas conseguem cobrir os eventos. Para mim, há um problema de base muito importante: o papel dessas redes na difusão do conteúdo jornalístico. Os jornalistas se tornaram muito dependentes delas e isso faz com que a cobertura sobre as redes sociais não tenha sido suficientemente crítica no passado.  

On this first episode of a two-parter Two Chill Canadians will be discussing three data policy controversies surrounding Facebook. Key people discussed in this episode include Sandy Parakilas, Aleksandar Kogan, and Christopher Wylie.

Americans will soon have to face a simple question: is Donald Trump above the law? Plus, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, on how big data is changing the political game. And a tribute to the queen of soul. Anne McElvoy hosts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christopher Wylie tells Kenneth Cukier why he blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica. They discuss whether platforms are doing enough to protect users’ privacy and what governments can do to safeguard independent electionsMusic by Chris Zabriskie “Divider” (CC by 4.0 UK) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christopher Wylie tells Kenneth Cukier why he blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica. They discuss whether platforms are doing enough to protect users’ privacy and what governments can do to safeguard independent electionsMusic by Chris Zabriskie “Divider” (CC by 4.0 UK) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the media is being played by covering Trump rallies, because the rallies manipulate the coverage of everything else.On the rest of the menu, a black woman in hospice care died after the utility company cut off the power to her oxygen tank; Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, connects the ouster of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, to Russia meddling in America; and, records show the psychiatrist prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children, has practiced without board certification to treat children and adolescents for nearly a decade.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australia takes the advice of far-right ‘strong borders' advocate, Lauren Southern, and kicks her out; and, today's World Cup semi-final between France and Belgium, shows off the success of European immigration.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appetit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” ― Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/10/1779322/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

The award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr tells the story behind the story. How millions of Facebook users' personal data were used to influence the American election and Brexit. Meet Carole Cadwalladr, whos unravelling of The Cambridge Analytica Files is one of this years biggest stories, in a rare appearance outside of the UK. Cambridge Analytica was a British-American political consulting firm that used data mining and data analysis to build profiles of US and British voters. Over 87 million Facebook users' personal data were used without permission in an attempt to influence, among other things, the American election and Brexit. In March 2018, Cadwalladr broke this story based on information from former employee turned whistleblower Christopher Wylie. Wylie claimed that Cambridge Analytica used data from Facebook in a way that violated Facebook's rules. Cadwalladr also revealed that Facebook was aware of this for two years. Cambridge Analytica shut down on May 1. The pod-cast ends with a panel discussion about ways elections can be influenced in the with Emelie Rosén, Lars Truedson and James Pamment.

Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica research director turned whistleblower, discusses the potential uses of big data to influence behavior and assesses how online communities are facilitating free expression and thought in the digital age.

This week on the regular version of TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian (plus special guest Andy Hoyle) discuss:- Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn- Buskers in London are the first to accept tap-to-pay cards- UK Amazon Prime members can order a Volvo test-drive (with Andy Hoyle)- Pornhub creates VPN service to circumvent blocksPatreon supportershave access to our ad-free and longer version of the show -- over 14 minutes longer this week -- which includes the above as well as additional discussions about:- EXTRA STORY: Blocking 500 Million Users Is Easier Than Complying With Europe’s New Rules- SPECIAL FEATURE: Behind the scenes of GDPR, Christopher Wylie, and data protection flaws- Longer intro feature involving dogs, sort of- Extended discussion around Facebook nudes, involving prudish Brits and flatbed scanners- Why does Ian hate buskers? What is he such a killjoy?- Do toilet attendants take contactless payments? - Ian wants to live on the moon- Outtakes and more!Please support us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/uktech for access to our exclusive ad-free extended version of the show, additional weekly special features in the programme, live-streaming, instant access to our entire back catalogue of extended shows, access to our Discord member’s club, higher quality MP3s, zero commitment required, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Laura y Santiago hablan (muy entusiasmados) sobre el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica. El plan era hacer una línea de tiempo y comentar los temas más importantes. Lo que realmente ocurrió es que esa línea de tiempo se volvió un reto descomunal. Aquí donde lo ven, este es el episodio más investigado de Cosas de Internet.www.cosasdeinternet.fm Con el apoyo de: ▸Oyentes como tú en Patreon  Notas del episodio:  Síganos en Patreon.  Columna de opinión de Laura en El Espectador. No tenemos registro del episodio en vivo para mostrar :( El evento en el que hicimos el podcast en vivo se llama Flisol Bogotá. Christopher Wylie, el soplón, contando la historia de Cambridge Analytica para The Guardian (hay que decir que vimos muchas veces este video). Zuckerberg testificando ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos.  A Mark Zuckerberg le hicieron muchos memes, este nos gustó.   Cambridge Analytica (en Wikipedia).  Facebook dice que Cambridge Analytica consiguió la información de 87 millones de usuarios.  La hipótesis de los seis grados de separación.  Zuckerberg: «This was a major bridge of trust». Cuando el soplón Wylie se fue de Cambridge Analytica fundó la empresa Eunoia Technologies, que también hacía comunicación política con base en big data.  Charla de Alexander Nix brutalmente interesante.  La cámara oculta de Channel 4 News revela cosas oscuras de Cambridge Analytica, acá va el reportaje que nosotros vimos.  Lista de artículos de Wired sobre el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica.  ¿Cómo saber qué aplicaciones tienen acceso a nuestra información de Facebook? Recomendación: Privacy Badger (extensión gratuita para navegadores).

In a highly anticipated hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, lawmakers questioned Christopher Wylie, a former research director for the shadowy political data firm Cambridge Analytica, about the company's history of privacy violations, its contacts with Russia, and its work with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Мы обсуждали новости, их все забыли и вот мы решили вам напомнить! Да, мы немножко слоупоки))) Everything You Need to Know About Facebook and Cambridge Analytica https://www.wired.com/story/wired-facebook-cambridge-analytica-coverage/amp Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie appears before MPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5g6IJm7YJQ Fact Check: Your Call and SMS History http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/fact-check-your-call-and-sms-history/ https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications (FB removed "Apps others use") Total Meltdown? https://blog.frizk.net/2018/03/total-meltdown.html?m=1 It's baaack – WannaCry nasty soars through Boeing's computers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/wannacry_boeing/ Egg on Cisco's face: Three critical software bugs to fix over Easter http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/cisco_critical_ios_bugs/ Guccifer 2.0 Was Always Sloppy https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a3ygmp/guccifer-2-russian-military-intelligence-gru-vpn Rapid 2.0 Ransomware Released, Will Not Encrypt Data on PCs with Russian Locale https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rapid-20-ransomware-released-will-not-encrypt-data-on-pcs-with-russian-locale/ Academics Discover New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named BranchScope https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/academics-discover-new-cpu-side-channel-attack-named-branchscope/ Practical Attacks Against Privacy and Availability in 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07563.pdf Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/adrian-lamo-homeless-hacker-who-turned-in-chelsea-manning-dead-at-37/ https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio Microsoft May Ban Users For Offensive Language Starting In May https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-may-ban-users-for-offensive-language-starting-in-may/ Drupal core - Highly critical - Remote Code Execution - SA-CORE-2018-002 https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002 NOTICE OF DATA BREACH https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html Durov refuses to hand over Telegram encryption keys to FSB http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252437323/Dorov-refuses-to-hand-over-Telegram-encryption-keys-to-FSB Signalling Security in Telecom SS7/Diameter/5G — ENISA https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/signalling-security-in-telecom-ss7-diameter-5g   Music - KEYGEN MUSIC ~ One hour mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c17k4LfLkaE

Katy Balls takes you through the best of Sunday's political interviews. Today's highlights come from Christopher Wylie, Angela Rayner, Victoria Atkins, Lord Adonis and Tony Blair. This podcast was produced by Matthew Taylor.

Trust in social media has hit a new low, following revelations that data of fifty million Facebook users, ended up in the hands of a UK data analysis company, and may have been used to influence Donald Trump's 2016 election and Brexit. Facebook this week announced new measures to protect users' privacy. The scandal has highlighted the challenge facing tech firms in ensuring personal information is not used for profit. Cambridge Analyica, the company at the heart of the privacy scandal engulfing Facebook, is accused of fraudulently obtaining data from the social media giant and then using it to run election ads on behalf of US president Donald Trump and the Vote Leave campaign in the UK. "These tech giants are actually using the users' data without their knowing, and what exactly they're using the data for," Arunima Tiwari, a Global Policy Analyst with the Indian research firm R Strategic, told RFI. "And they are losing the users' trust because of these scams," she said. A Cambridge academic called Aleksandr Kogan made a 'Test Your Personality' app, and paid users a small fee to get them to download it. Two hundred and seventy thousand people did, sharing details about themselves, and unknowingly, their friends as well. Fifty million Facebook users in total were targetted. The information was then sold to Cambridge Analytica. The UK data analysis company vigorously denies the charges levelled against it, but declined RFI's request for an interview. "It is categorically untrue that Cambrige Analytica has never used Facebook data," Christopher Wylie, the company's former research director, who revealed the scandal, told British MPs on Tuesday 27 March. "The acquisition using Alexander Kogan's app was the foundational data set of the company," Wylie said. The scandal has raised disturbing questions about the use of social media in political campaigns. Facebook insists it had no idea the data taken from its site was being used, but it took months to act and the episode has exposed yet again, its laxity towards privacy, after coming under fire in 2015 for not doing enough to tackle fake news. No hacking "Facebook is in the wrong because they were too lackadaisical about how they treated their users' privacy," reckons Chris Kavanagh, a Cognitive Anthropologist at Oxford, living in Japan. However, he dismisses reports that the data breach was a hack, saying users granted Facebook permission for a third party app to access their data. "They made use of a feature that was freely available to any developer on the Facebook platform that applied for it, prior to 2015. Describing it as a breach, suggests that they somehow exploited the system, but in reality they were making use of a feature that tens of thousands of developers use to harvest profile information and that kind of thing," he told RFI. Emma Suleiman, founder and CEO of a digital PR agency in Paris, agrees. “To be clear, it's not just Facebook," she told RFI. "Everything you do online is tracked, seen and registered. There are databases all over the world filled with your online life. This data is used for research, analysis, targeted advertising and probably for companies and governments spying on you. Is this a bad thing? It’s there any way but what you make of it is the real question.” Tiwari for her part, wants better regulation. She says crypted language has enabled tech firms like Facebook to manipulate users. "What they do is prepare a privacy policy that is vague and ambiguous, and users do not necessarily understand the language and what they're trying to portray." Need for public awareness Kavanagh hopes that the scandal will encourage users to be more cautious and to read the small print. Right now, the terms and conditions are "buried so deep in the settings" that no one knows they can opt out of a third party app and prevent their data being shared by their friends, he said. A new European law, called the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, set to be unveiled on May 25, wants to change that. "GDPR will grant users greater control of their data," explains Tiwari. "If any user wants to know what data a company has on them, they can, and have their data deleted," she said. The outcry has stirred calls for users to disconnect through the hashtag #deletefacebook. Trust is particularly low in Nigeria, after claims by Wylie that a Canadian-based affiliate of Cambridge Analytica spread violent images in to discredit opponents in the 2007 and 2015 elections. "The general discussion that we've been having is that people will have to limit the amount of information that they give out online," Nnamdi Anekwe-Chive, director of the research firm Chive-GPS, told RFI. Despite efforts by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to enhance the privacy of users, Anekwe-Chive says that "people are thinking of ways to limit the amount of data they drop online and curtail the amount of data that is available online."

Deutlich weniger Beschwerden über Hetze im Netz als erwartet / Whistleblower Christopher Wylie enthüllt weitere brisante Informationen / Der mutmaßliche Betreiber der zwei wichtigsten rechtsextremen Online-Portale in Deutschland ist festgenommen worden / Ausgesucht von der M94.5-Online-Redaktion. Präsentiert von Annika Bavendiek.

Don’t forget to follow plunge_podcast on Twitter, rate and review the show on iTunes, and send it to your friends, colleagues, family members, enemies, prominent politicians, studio executives, anyone who could benefit from having our dank insights broadcasted directly to their favorite device. Today’s show is jam-packed: we have quick hits on Rex Tillerson and Elon Musk, terrible takes about global warming and Donald Trump Jr.’s divorce, and we’re talking about The Young Karl Marx and some rare sports coverage in the pop culture corner. Our main story is the Facebook Cambridge Analytica revelations in the Guardian. So sit back and bask in the content. This is The Plunge. Notez: Tillerson Fired While Expelling Feces https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-told-him-hed-be-getting-fired Elon Musk poaches comedy writers from the Onion for mysterious project http://splitsider.com/2018/03/elon-musk-vs-the-onion/ http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-did-everything-i-could-buy-clickhole-their-edito-7569 https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-embarrassed-after-realizing-he-proposing-idea-1823804914 Neil Young vs NRA “Why Doesnt She Just Shoot Me?” https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-on-nras-dana-loesch-hating-his-music-why-doesnt-she-just-shoot-me/ Nazi infidelity drama https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x75vg/the-most-prominent-hate-group-in-america-may-collapse-because-of-an-affair-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus Don Jr Divorcing...WONDER WHY? https://pagesix.com/2018/03/14/donald-trump-jr-and-wife-headed-for-divorce-friends-say/?utm Suggestive drunk texts https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/donald-trump-jr-sent-suggestive-twitter-dms-while-married.html Gross Trump Jr Ballad https://splinternews.com/imagine-writing-this-sex-n-love-ballad-about-donald-t-1823917005 RIP Stephen Hawking https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15 Bizarre article arguing that Albert Einstein would have been a climate denier https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/16/would-albert-einstein-be-a-global-warming-skeptic-yes/ Christopher Wylie news drop https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump Inside Facebook’s 2 years https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/ Facebook Groups used to Spread Misinformation https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-facebook-groups-are-being-exploited-to-spread?utm_term=.oy6XEgpM6&bftwnews#.hw6YKb2wB Facebook will show you child pornography https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/facebook-apologises-child-sexual-abuse-offensive-autocomplete-terms Zuckerberg can serve in gov’t “indefinitely” without it counting as Voluntary Resignation https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/connector-in-chief/ Zuck also wants you to know he eats white toast with no jam or butter https://twitter.com/Meg_u_min/status/910768888094236672 Facebook’s heinous corporate tax lobbying https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-president-taxes-lobbying Tech giants are monopolies http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/246822/facebook-google-amazon-monopolies The Rise of The Facebook Graveyard http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead David Mitchell on nationalizing Facebook: “When you're getting something free, you're not the customer, you're the product.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/facebook-monopoly-david-mitchell Young Karl Marx Interview https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/the_young_karl_marx_raoul_peck OJ Rips Kap for Kneeling http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/16/oj-simpson-kaepernick-flag-protest-trump/

Le scandale Facebook-Cambridge Analytica : Zuckerberg tombe des nues! Un lanceur d’alerte, Christopher Wylie, a révélé cette semaine que la compagnie pour laquelle il travaillait, Cambridge Analytica, avait utilisé des dizaines de millions d’informations obtenues des utilisateurs américains de Facebook pour tenter d’influencer le vote en faveur de Donald Trump lors de la plus récente campagne électorale américaine. Cela a créé un scandale qui semble avoir surpris les responsables. Est-ce que le public et les artisans de Facebook vivent sur deux planètes? Pourquoi les gouvernements, du moins en Amérique, ne voient-ils pas le besoin de protéger les renseignements personnels? Michel Lacombe en discute avec ses invités.

Le scandale Facebook-Cambridge Analytica : Zuckerberg tombe des nues! Un lanceur d’alerte, Christopher Wylie, a révélé cette semaine que la compagnie pour laquelle il travaillait, Cambridge Analytica, avait utilisé des dizaines de millions d’informations obtenues des utilisateurs américains de Facebook pour tenter d’influencer le vote en faveur de Donald Trump lors de la plus récente campagne électorale américaine. Cela a créé un scandale qui semble avoir surpris les responsables. Est-ce que le public et les artisans de Facebook vivent sur deux planètes? Pourquoi les gouvernements, du moins en Amérique, ne voient-ils pas le besoin de protéger les renseignements personnels? Michel Lacombe en discute avec ses invités.

Over een heftige spannende fascinerende storm gesproken. De hoos ontstond door klokkenluider Christopher Wylie, ex-medewerker van Cambridge Analytica. Hij vertelde hoe het databedrijf met 50 miljoen profielen van Facebookgebruikers de Trump en Brexit-campagnes hebben geholpen.

Virksomheden Cambridge Analytica er blevet taget med fingrene i kagedåsen - ifølge whistlebloweren Christopher Wylie har virksomheden på fordækt vis skaffet sig oplysninger på 50 millioner Facebook-brugere, som den mod deres vidende har lavet psykologiske analyser på. Det har fået alarmklokkerne til at ringe, fordi virksomheden arbejder med at påvirke valg og politik gennem psykologi. Digitalt dykker ned i, hvordan teknologi designes til at manipulere med vores stenalderhjerners følelser, så vi spiller lidt længere, køber lidt mere eller trykker 'del' og 'like' uden at tænke os om. Tilrettelæggere: Chris Lehmann og Allan Nisgaard. Værter: Chris Lehmann og Esben Hardenberg.

Two weeks ago, Facebook learned that The New York Times, Guardian, and Observer were working on blockbuster stories based on interviews with a man named Christopher Wylie. The core of the tale was familiar but the details were new, and now the scandal was attached to a charismatic face with a top of pink hair. Four years ago, a slug of Facebook data on 50 million Americans was sucked down by a UK academic named Aleksandr Kogan, and wrongly sold to Cambridge Analytica.

Bio  Henry T. Greely (@HankGreelyLSJU) is the Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences; and Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is also the Chair of Stanford's Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Director of Stanford's Program in Neuroscience and Society. Hank specializes in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, particularly those related to neuroscience, genetics, or stem cell research. He frequently serves as an advisor on California, national, and international policy issues. He is chair of California's Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, a member of the Advisory Council of the NIH's National Institute for General Medical Sciences, a member of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academies, a member of the Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine, and served from 2007-2010 as co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. In 2007 Professor Greely was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1985, Greely was a partner at Tuttle & Taylor, served as a staff assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and as special assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received Stanford University's Richard W. Lyman Prize in 2013.  Resources Stanford University Center for Law and the Biosciences War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy News Roundup N.Y. Times: Data Firm with links to Trump Campaign Exploited Facebook User Data  The New York Times dropped a bombshell story on Sunday and it has sent Washington and the stock market into a tailspin. The Dow dropped more than 1%, or by over 300 points, Facebook lost some $37 billion in value, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw his net worth decline by $5 billion. In addition,  Congressional leaders including Dianne Feinstein, Amy Klobuchar, John Thune, Adam Schiff, Mark Warner and Chuck Grassley are just HAMMERING Facebook at this moment and I wouldn't want to be in Zukerberg's shoes right now. The New York Times investigation alleges that a London-based company called Cambridge Analytica, with deep ties to Republican donor Robert Mercer, who invested $15 million in Cambridge Analytica, Mercer's daughter who's on the board of Cambridge Analytica, and none other than Steve Bannon, who allegedly named the company, exploited Facebook user data to influence the 2016 presidential election to target users based on their psychographic profiles—things like religion, life statisfaction, conscientiousness, and extraversion. Of course, it's illegal under U.S. election laws to employ foreigners in political campaigns. So, The Times alleges, Cambridge set up a shell corporation and hired a Russian-American front man, Alexander Kogan, who was a researcher with the University of Cambridge. Kogan then created a Facebook personality quiz that paid users to share their private information and download the app. Some 50 million users were affected. This quiz allegedly scraped their information, and Cambridge Analytica gave him $800,000 for it. A former Cambridge Analytica employee, Christopher Wylie, was the whistleblower in all this. Facebook says it would suspend working with Cambridge Analytica and conduct an internal review, including the hiring of a forensics team. Channel 4 News London reported in an internal investigation that Cambridge Analytica uses bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians. This is just the surface. Summarizing every detail of this is way above my pay grade. But it's just layers upon layers of deception and bullshittery. You can find summaries and analysis in The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Trump administration issues new Russian sanctions on same day it reveals attacks on power plants Russia has stepped its capability with regard to cyberattacks on nuclear power plans, water, and electric systems, according to U.S. intelligence officials.The country now has moved from having the ability to surveil American power plants to having the ability to disable them anytime tensions escalate, and in a similar manner with which it disabled power in the Ukraine on two separate occasions in 2015 and 2016. The accusations came on the same day the Trump administration imposed new economic sanctions against Russia for its role in hacking the 2016 presidential election. Sanctions include freezing assets and prohibiting business deals from being transacted with two-dozen Russian individuals and entities. Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger report in the New York Times and Jonathan Easley reports in The Hill. First pedestrian casualty for self-driving cars Ali Breland reports in the Hill that a 49-year-old woman was struck and killed by an Uber fully self-driving car while she was walking through a crosswalk in Tempe, Arizona on Monday. The state attracted Uber because of its deregulatory approach to self-driving vehicle technology. The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it would be investigating. Uber has suspended its testing of self-driving cars in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. Walmart whistleblower sues after reporting e-commerce cheating A former Walmart executive has sued the world's largest retailer for firing him after he reported that the company was fudging its e-commerce results to show better numbers against Amazon. The complaint alleges that Walmart mislabeled products and deliberately failed to properly process returns in order to inflate sales numbers. Jonathan Stempel and Nandita Bose report in Reuters. Japanese regulators raid Amazon Ali Breland reports for the Hill that Japanese regulators raided Amazon last week. Japan's Fair Trade Commission may be concerned about Amazon's alleged practice of strong-arming suppliers to show cheaper prices on Amazon as compared to their competitors in Japan. Amazon recalls portable chargers  Amazon is recalling 260,000 AmazonBasics portable chargers after it received 53 complaints that they were overheating. One person reported being burned by the charger's battery acid. Four others reported fire and smoke. Kate Gibson reports for CBS. Google introduces wheelchair accessibility in Maps Google released Thursday a new wheelchair-friendly maps navigation feature. The feature will include accessible routes and information on accommodations in public transportation. Josh Delk reports in the Hill. Google bans Bitcoin ads  Google has decided to ban ads for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Facebook had previously initiated a similar ban. The company did not state why it decided to make the policy change. However, it comes as many in the policy community have expressed concern that online ads could be used to promote cryptocurrency scams. Daisuke Wakabayashi reports for The New York Times. Microsoft logs 200 discrimination, harassment complaints over 6 years Ali Breland reported in the Hill that, according to court filings filed by women suing Microsoft for gender pay and promotion discrimination, women working at the company lodged some 238 gender discrimination or harassment complaints between 2010 and 2016. Of the 118 that were gender discrimination complaints, Microsoft found only one to be “founded”. According to Natasha Bach at Fortune, Microsoft has changed the way it addresses harassment complaints by banning forced arbitration agreements. The question, of course, is whether that's enough. Conservative forms bogus company to lure tech workers Finally, Gizmodo reports that James O'Keefe—the undercover conservative activist— created a fake company and sent in employees of his Project Veritas organization to pose as recruiters. These fake recruiters then reached out to employees at major tech companies like Twitter to interview them and record their responses. In one case, an employee stated that Twitter hired few conservatives and secretly hid content posted by conservative users in a practice called “shadow banning”. Project Veritas then allegedly posted the videos as evidence of an anti-conservative bias at Twitter. Twitter has denied in Congressional testimony that it engages in shadow banning activities.