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Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by Symbiote »

adamnemecek wrote: post #4

This is on the front page of reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/86qxrb/cambridge_anal... I’m guessing it’s real the building does look like the CA HQ.

I'm not sure why you would doubt it.

But anyway, the Guardian has an article too: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/judge-grants-se...

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by passivepinetree »

Symbiote wrote: post #11
adamnemecek wrote: post #4

This is on the front page of reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/86qxrb/cambridge_anal... I’m guessing it’s real the building does look like the CA HQ.

I'm not sure why you would doubt it. But anyway, the Guardian has an article too: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/judge-grants-se...

Skepticism is healthy.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by adamnemecek »

Symbiote wrote: post #11
adamnemecek wrote: post #4

This is on the front page of reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/86qxrb/cambridge_anal... I’m guessing it’s real the building does look like the CA HQ.

I'm not sure why you would doubt it. But anyway, the Guardian has an article too: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/judge-grants-se...

Thx I couldn’t find the article and it does look damning but reddit sometimes has a tendency to run with things so I prefer to be cautious.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by cs702 »

In the blink of an eye, it seems, we have gone from a world in which collecting, storing, and using personal data for financial gain was largely viewed as a harmless activity, to a world in which doing those same things will be increasingly controlled and regulated, scrutinized, criticized, investigated, fined, and ultimately, I suspect, criminalized.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by Analemma_ »

gabipurcaru wrote: post #10
rdiddly wrote: post #3

Ah, this completes the triad for me. I had previously heard FB deny responsibility and Kogan deny responsibility. Hadn't yet heard CA deny responsibility until now. That's settled then. I guess nobody's at fault! Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.

did Facebook deny responsibility?

Facebook has sort of apologized, but their position has been that CA bamboozled them, not that this is an inherent outcome of their business model.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by vinay427 »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #7

Big Brother raids Step Brother for data provided by Little Brother. I can't imagine I'm any safer now.

The raid was conducted by the Information Commissioner's Office, which has a mission to "uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals". That doesn't seem very Big Brother to me, even if other government agencies do fit that characterization.

Source: the bottom of their homepage - https://ico.org.uk

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by TomK32 »

alkonaut wrote: post #5
nightcracker wrote: post #2

Too late...

Raiding has to come with a sufficient reason for those raided to believe the raiding party already has at least a portion of the material, either obtained through interception or inside sources. The idea is that the people being raided will hand over as much as possible because it’s in their own best interest - knowing that anything they don’t produce may be in the material already obtained, making them liable for de…

Didn't know that. Thank you.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by pjc50 »

cs702 wrote: post #14

In the blink of an eye, it seems, we have gone from a world in which collecting, storing, and using personal data for financial gain was largely viewed as a harmless activity, to a world in which doing those same things will be increasingly controlled and regulated, scrutinized, criticized, investigated, fined, and ultimately, I suspect, criminalized.

Years ago Bruce Schneier said that nothing would happen until there was the privacy equivalent of the Exxon Valdez / Bhopal / Chernobyl; a leak high profile and toxic enough to irrevocably change public opinion. Maybe this is that trigger event.

The EU was ahead on this, adopting data protection rules from 1995, before even the first dotcom boom. I believe it's a legacy of fear of the Stasi driving opposition to surveillance.

Re: Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

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Post by alkonaut »

TomK32 wrote: post #18
alkonaut wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raiding has to come with a sufficient reason for those raided to believe the raiding party already has at least a portion of the material, either obtained through interception or inside sources. The idea is that the people being raided will hand over as much as possible because it’s in their own best interest - knowing that anything they don’t produce may be in the material already obtained, making them liable for de…

Didn't know that. Thank you.

I’m not sure this is the case here. It may well be that in this case they are going for a fruitless search for material destroyed days ago. But at least I hope they are more clever than that.
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