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The Current powered by Kim Komando

Cambridge Analytica Facebook manipulated us we helped

The Current powered by Kim Komando

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Technology, Tech News

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Your online privacy is compromised! Cambridge Analytica manipulated you, then harvested your personal data and psychographic profiles through Facebook. But did you help? Is it too late to protect yourself? Can you get your privacy back? What are your rights? Does online privacy even exist? The laws are changing, so listen now for my inside scoop from an Internet Security Lawyer and a risk management pro – on this week’s Komando on Demand free podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everyone suddenly talking about Facebook.

0:02.0

That's it. I'm done with Facebook.

0:04.0

I would say I'm done with letting people just take my data.

0:08.0

Are you really that surprise that your information is being used to sway your votes, to manipulate your tastes?

0:14.0

We're learning more about Cambridge Analytic and its mining of data on millions of Americans for political purposes.

0:20.0

According to the Guardian, the firm harvested personal data from U.S. voters without permission,

0:25.1

the company, which was headed at the time by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, has since been

0:29.7

suspended from Facebook.

0:31.0

Do you honestly think that it's just a coincidence that when you post a picture of you and your

0:35.3

friends checking in at a hamburger joint,

0:38.0

two days later, you're actually getting an ad for that same hamburger joint.

0:42.1

It was a grossly unethical experiment because you are playing with an entire country,

0:48.4

the psychology of an entire country without their consent or awareness.

0:52.2

And not only are you like playing with the psychology of an entire nation,

0:56.9

you're playing with the psychology of an entire nation in the context of the democratic process.

1:01.1

Do you really think it's a coincidence that when you rant about politics on Facebook,

1:05.6

suddenly you're getting links to pages that only support your point of view?

1:10.2

Do people know what data is being gathered?

1:12.4

How is it being used?

1:13.8

How do Facebook police third-party organizations using it?

1:17.7

And when there's been a breach in the data rules, does Facebook really have the power to get

1:21.3

that data back?

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