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- R_Kercz0
Tech Crunch: Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
- yuekit1
Suitcase spy poisoning plot: nerve agent 'was planted in luggage of Sergei Skripal's daughter'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news…
The nerve agent that poisoned the Russian spy Sergei Skripal was planted in his daughter’s suitcase before she left Moscow, intelligence agencies now believe.
Senior sources have told the Telegraph they are convinced the Novichok nerve agent was hidden in the luggage of Yulia Skripal, the double agent’s 33-year-old daughter.
They are working on the theory that the toxin was impregnated in an item of clothing or cosmetics or else in a gift that was opened in his house in Salisbury, meaning Miss Skripal was deliberately targeted to get at her father.
- was she visiting Russia or was she living there and decided to move to UK to be with her father? site would let me read the entire article.Ramanisky2
- @ram, she did live in UK but moved back to Moscow a few years ago.fadein11
- I’m surprised, such a risky thing to do considering.Ramanisky2
- https://www.reddit.c…Milan
- renderedred2
I guess this belongs here...
https://www.theguardian.com/news…
"The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements."
- This is fascinating.R_Kercz
- yup!renderedred
- BTW I have "stumbled upon" Cambridge Analytica in other leaks too... Interesting venture.renderedred
- TBF, C.A. was broadly covered in the media a year or so ago, I'm not sure why it's being so heavily featured again in the headlines at the momentdetritus
- eg.
http://www.spectator…detritus - yeah, that's when i first read about them.renderedred
- hit the news again because this info wasn't part of the original story"
"harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever"fadein11 - data breach"fadein11
- fooler5
Republican who called Florida shooting survivor a 'skinhead lesbian' quits Maine race
- He looks like a real winner.sarahfailin
- Gaymonospaced
- he’s just disappointed because she’s not a little boy he can send dick pics to.GuyFawkes
- He looks like a fucking cunt.face_melter
- CLINTchukkaphob
- he looks like a bible thumping pedophileGuyFawkes
- PhanLo0
£160k for a tennis match with Baw Jaws?
- https://d.ibtimes.co…Fax_Benson
- @Fax looks worth it. :-)PhanLo
- Bluejam1
- Stopped watching after I saw pink trans hair... Fake news, IT companies have been doing this for years...robotron3k
- ^ And now for a rousing game of 'Spot the Homo-/Trans-phobe'!Continuity
- Yeah, and the rich have been exploiting the poor for years. Fake news. Nothing burger. Just do as the rich command! MAGA!!!mandomafioso
- ^ But is he lying?Maaku
- @cont. - tbf I automatically judge people with KrazYKolour hair, but that's simply due to my experience and has nothing to do with perceived sexuality.detritus
- oh, hold on - i missed 'trans' in robo's post.detritus
- -formers?
-Am?
-action?
-tastic?detritus - Transylvanian?Fax_Benson
- Robo has zero tolerance of Romanian Eurofags.Fax_Benson
- I think the robotic ladyboy doth protest too muchdetritus
- isn't this pretty standard marketing techniques? this is why FB, Tw, IG... are 'free' to useGnash
- @gnash - http://www.bbc.co.uk…fadein11
- ya, I still on't see what's unusual here. anyone who thinks this isn't standard fare is pretty naiveGnash
- Facebooks share price would say otherwise.fadein11
- hedge fund managers aren't arbiters of truthGnash
- "routine"
https://www.theguard…Gnash - only diff this time is that the 'bad' guys used itGnash
- have you even read about this? it has nothing to do with standard marketing practices. Not looking for an argument here.fadein11
- Not the best source but a decent summary of why this is differentfadein11
- http://digg.com/2018…fadein11
- yes "routine" covert data harvesting. Against the privacy policy we all agree to. Covert gnash, covert.fadein11
- I am amazed you are cool with this.fadein11
- "harvested data from over 50 million Facebook profiles without users' permission to create targetable personality profiles for campaign advertisements"fadein11
- what did people think Facebook / twitter / instagram... were doing with the data? lolGnash
- nothing new here. bigger fish to fryGnash
- it's only different because the nazis got caught using it.Gnash
- I think permission is the keyword.fadein11
- "hundreds of thousands of Facebook users took personality tests with the app. In doing so, users consented to their data being collected for academic use.fadein11
- Its use was to prove anything but academic."fadein11
- this had nothing to do with the standard terms/privacy policy everyone agrees to on facebook.fadein11
- Anyway, not looking for yet another argument. Just trying to explain why this is different. Hopefully it will help improve Facebook's misuse of our data.fadein11
- I neve ruse those silly viral app things on facebook but I would be a little bit annoyed if I did a personality test (agreed under the pretense that it wasfadein11
- for an academic study) but in doing so the academic gained full access to my entire profile (the personality test was a front) and then passed my data on to befadein11
- used in influencing an election. hmmmm. And this was done on millions of users.fadein11
- https://pbs.twimg.co…Gnash
- of course it's illegal, but no diff than what's been happening for years. wrong guys got caught, this time.Gnash
- people didn't hand over their data to Cambridge Analytica though. And that's the point.fadein11
- Agreed it's been happening for years though. This time Facebook got caught and its doing serious damage.
Orig Cambridge Analytica story is well over a year oldfadein11 - I'm clearly not making you see the difference between data you agree to hand over to help sell you stuff (standard marketing practices as you said) andfadein11
- data stolen to help influence an election. And data that was easily stolen due to Facebooks lack of care for its users.fadein11
- it wasn't'stolen. Facebook 'sold' it to them, like they have to myriad other companiesGnash
- and It was used to influence an election, so what? that's what advertising does, as well.Gnash
- Politicians have been using the internet, with various degrees of success, to influence elections since they figured out it's powerGnash
- Of course they should be charged, because it seems they did it illegally. But the over-reaction ivy people and the media is pure bullshit.Gnash
- Facebook's share price is as high as it is precisely because 'business types' know precisely what it is doing and is capable of = $$$detritus
- It's sure as fuck not solely because 2Bn credulous consumers don't have any clue of how much value they're pumping into the thing and eyeball ads.detritus
- ^ exactlyGnash
- have you read a single link I have sent... in this instance facebook did not sell the data. it was stolen by an academic using a spoof app and then he handed itfadein11
- all over to Cambridge Analytica. Of course I know the value of facebook data for marketing. And yes we all sign over our data when we agree to the terms.fadein11
- This was a completely different situation to that. Hence why its hit the news lol. Everyone knew about Cambridge Analytica 2 years ago and everyone knowsfadein11
- Facebook sell your data. But they didn't here, it was a breach due to lax care on Facebooks part. Jeez, read the links lolfadein11
- The data was taken 'covertly' without 'permission' using a spoof app. Its a totally different story. Read the links.fadein11
- there is zero chance Facebook did not know. and zero chance that they weren't compensated.Gnash
- No I've not read anything you've linked, fadein, because you've added nothing beyond what I've already read on the subject.detritus
- CA's 'use' of FB's API to eke 3rd and 4th party info out of an FB App was known a year ago—the only news here is the fallout from C4's follow-up investigation.detritus
- None of this is new, none of this is novel - norms MIGHT start caring now that a non-fringe news entity's investigated things, but this is all known knowns.detritus
- or, if not acutely, speciifcally and exactly not known knowns, then very much suspected knowns. hence corporate love for FB and its share valuationdetritus
- Top story across all media, share price plummets, facebook under investigation and its not news. Ok det. If you bothered to read anything i saidfadein11
- You would see that i have already said that cambridge analytica was well reported 2 years ago... Sigh. Lets see how it pans out eh.fadein11
- @gnash. yes they likely did know, hence why its a worldwide news story. Nope they were not paid for it, it was covertly taken also hence why its a worldwidefadein11
- new story.fadein11
- and if they were paid for it it's an even bigger news story lol.fadein11
- they certainly knew soon after as their 3rd party API was updated/locked downfadein11
- colin_s0
Fuck this twat doing this apology tour. "I made a shit ton of money doing evil in teh world please apologize me thanks"
Then again if anyone at this point is surprised at this CA type stuff then they're an idiot
- BonSeff2
- So the UK meddling in US elections?robotron3k
- If by 'UK' you mean a private, for-profit corporation based in the UK and partially owned by an American, then you would be correct.mandomafioso
- But those are just stupid, pointless 'details' and 'facts' that someone such as yourself can't be asked to distinguish.mandomafioso
- Seems like the Brit firm they are co-owned by was also involved in Brexit and 24 other elections since 94... The Queen must be bored.robotron3k
- lol @ robo. this bullshit all originated in US.fadein11
- "the dark art of dynamic psychometric manipulation in politics was not pioneered by Cambridge Analytica for Trump, but by i360 Themis, the operation founded byfadein11
- the Brothers Koch, and Data Trust, a cyber-monster operated by Karl “Bush's Brain” Rove"fadein11
- Yes fade, I know, you Brits are innocent bystanders... You guys didn't start the Slave trade in the new world either, a bunch if Africans were stow aways...robotron3k
- hmmmm, off topic a little there. didn't say we were innocentfadein11
- nobody today is guilty of slave trade that occurred hundreds of years ago, and that argument is retarded, robomonospaced
- Holy fuck robo, you're really having to dig hard these days.garbage
- ********0
^ Alexander Nix (of Cambridge Analytica) boasts about using hidden cameras while being filmed by a hidden camera
- Bluejam0
- 15 years ago, on this day ...Bluejam
- Worked out well. Mission accomplished.PhanLo
- Good ole U.S. of A.fadein11
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- ha never actually seen that vidfadein11
- Long live American imperialism.mandomafioso
- Colonialism done right!robotron3k
- What Did Happen To Saddam's WMD?
#MAGAutopian
- allthethings2
https://threadreaderapp.com/thre…
Before you let anyone poo-poo the Cambridge Analytica story, here are some key things to remember.
- @gnash @det
this article has saved me some time. thanks.fadein11
- @gnash @det
- robotron3k1
Doh!
- hahaha. breaking news.capn_ron
- You suck at photoshopmonospaced
- ONNteh
- lolGuyFawkes
- R_Kercz0
Intercepted Podcast:
Legacy of Blood — The 55-year U.S. war against Iraqis
- ********-4
Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would "beat the hell out of" President Donald Trump if they were in high school over his crude comments about women.
- white *clap* cis *clap* toxic *clap*
masculinityGnash - he said this last year too, why is this even news now?GuyFawkes
- But bring a little girl into the room and Uncle Joe appears...robotron3k
- really robo?monospaced
- OMGroboutopian
- Like teen beauty pageant girls in a dressing room?monospaced
- I’d much rather him in the WH, but you have to admit that the creep-factor he exhibits around little ones is, well, creepy.Gnash
- Really mono... https://youtu.be/KQ-…robotron3k
- not a single accusation, not a single anything that would indicate he’s actually got an issue ... even your dumbass video says that verbatimmonospaced
- So if you want to compare joe to trump, you’d better start with rape accusations and pageants, and that’s just to catch up to dumbfuck trumpmonospaced
- white *clap* cis *clap* toxic *clap*
- allthethings1
The Right-Wing Attacks on Parkland Survivors Are Totally Unhinged
And also utterly predictable.
- yeah, saw that article.
never realised James Wood was such a cuntBluejam - ^ Oh, James Wood is a totally unhinged wingnut. He gets super-pissed when people call him out on his wild fuckery, like a lot of rightwing snowflakes.face_melter
- yeah, saw that article.
