T And T Garage wrote on 03/29/18 at 09:08:40:It's not so much what they did necessarily - it's the time at which they did it.
By the time our current president's campaign came around, the terms and conditions had changed and how information was mined was regulated differently.
CA deliberately concealed its techniques while the Obama campaign was transparent. Basically, Obama's folks had consent from the users, CA didn't.
you're pretty much deluded.
Quote:The Obama campaign created a Facebook app for supporters to donate, learn of voting requirements, and find nearby houses to canvass. The app asked users’ permission to scan their photos, friends lists, and news feeds. Most users complied.
The people signing up knew the data they were handing over would be used to support a political campaign. Their friends, however, did not.
The people who downloaded the app used by Cambridge Analytica did not know their data would be used to aid any political campaigns. The app was billed as a personality quiz that would be used by Cambridge University researchers.
Aleksandr Kogan, one of the Cambridge researchers involved in the project, sold the data to the upstart political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The company then sold its services not only to the Trump campaign, but to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz and the senatorial campaign of Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., among others.
Your contention that the Obama app is ok because their app required full buyin vs. trumps app did not.
But in both cases, friends were scanned whether they permitted or not.
And Obama app was directly associated with Obama whereas Trump app was not.
Yeah, but you seem to miss the fact that from 2007 to 2016, things changed... duh!
"By the time our current president's campaign came around, the terms and conditions had changed and how information was mined was regulated differently."
Quote:Facebook friends lists, tags and photos allowed Obama operatives to identify a person’s close friends, which they then matched with offline public records. (Was this person likely to vote for Obama, but unlikely to get out to vote?) They then told the app users which of their friends they should send campaign messages to.
Cambridge Analytica dialed up what Karpf called the creepiness factor. They combined the survey results with the Facebook data to create psychological profiles they then sold to campaigns. The idea was, if the firm could discover how these people thought, they could target ads toward them.
They then sent targeted ads to the users on the database. The friends of the app users weren’t being targeted by their friends, but by the campaign itself. In other words, the consenting middle man was gone.
Yet in the application of the data Obamas use of coercion of friends by friends is pretty creepy.
Vs trumps ads direct to friends which is no worse than facebook ads.