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Started another semester of @DarkData today. So lucky to have candidates who range from BFA, MA, MPS, MS, MFA, to a PhD candidate. Student representation across 3 colleges at @TheNewSchool including Parsons, New School for Social Research, and Schools of Public Engagement. 
Syllabus skeleton:
Part 1️⃣:Concepts
🗄️Origins
🗳️Data Politics
👥Data Selves
👣Privacy
👁️Visual Surveillance
👀Attention Economy
Midterm: Pitch for Zine
Part 2️⃣: Comparative Study
🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺
🇮🇳 & 🇨🇳
🌍“Rest of World”
🔜Special Topic
📑Zine Publishing Workshop
mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata
Part 1️⃣:Concepts
🗄️Origins
🗳️Data Politics
👥Data Selves
👣Privacy
👁️Visual Surveillance
👀Attention Economy
Midterm: Pitch for Zine
Part 2️⃣: Comparative Study
🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺
🇮🇳 & 🇨🇳
🌍“Rest of World”
🔜Special Topic
📑Zine Publishing Workshop
mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata
As you might imagine, some enrolled in my class after seeing #TheGreatHack but one said it was because it’s one of the classes stickered on the windows at @TheNewSchool University Center! Gotta love that.
Update: Bekah Mercer is now suing Alexander Nix for doing her the ‘favour’ of running Campaign Analytica/SCL into bankruptcy/insolvency as to enjoy the moratorium on data protection act violations which the UK ICO described and affected all registered voters (not just 87 million)
Weird “Payback suit” acting as Dynamo Recoveries after Bekah Mercer already achieved absorbing Cambridge Analytica/SCL into Emerdata Limited and Nigel Oakes got defence gigs/assets as SCL Analytics Ltd
Did Bannon ever cooperate with probes into CA/SCL? We know FTC tried to serve him. But no press follow-up on that. Now a jury is forming on his Jan6 obstruction indictment after shady pardons and whatnot. That Leninist-Duginist who came up with the name Cambridge Analytica.
Thank you @IanCLucas
Just finished this important history book that narrates the period of political tumult (2015-2020) where we became aware of digital threats to democracy in UK and beyond. We sought accountability and came so close but it was obstructed by the power of the accused in a cover-up.
To order a copy go to digitalgangstersbook.com and it’s entirely unsurprising that none of the big publishers would touch this book. I myself have been unsuccessful in finding a major publisher willing to chronicle the true story of this significant period from my vantage point.
Cambridge Analytica flummoxed everything in its path, especially the entire regulatory apparatus, but Federal Election Commission’s stymied effort to enforce blatant violations is a particularly depressing example of ‘getting away with it.’ #TheGreatHack cnbc.com/2021/11/12/mon…
But I have put on a second collared shirt to recognize Bannon Indictment Day.
Bannon has been successfully evading accountability for quite some time now.
Excellent work by @JasonLeopold!
Unfortunately the secrets behind these redactions from August remain a mystery. #CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser told #TheGreatHack that she was cooperating with Mueller team. The Russia question remains..
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Unfortunately the secrets behind these redactions from August remain a mystery. #CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser told #TheGreatHack that she was cooperating with Mueller team. The Russia question remains..
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
For context @JasonLeopold obtained Kaiser's 302 in August of 2020. It's entirely redacted. ALL pages in the Mueller report related to #CambridgeAnalytica and any potential Russian connection is redacted. ICO in the UK referred Russia connection to the NCA
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
We know from #SSCIVol5 that #CambridgeAnalytica potentially did work with/for Lukoil. Redactions remain over that.
Miami Herald partners with Channel4 and studies their Cambridge Analytica database leak from 2016 and conclude that its voter deterrence campaign was effective in Florida. #DeterringDemocracy #TheGreatHack miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Amazing interview with a GOP activist on how they justify their Black vote deterrence campaigns.
Couched in language to appease skeptics and address controversies around the efficacy of political advertising more broadly, there is some basic evidence here in the C4 leak that is difficult to dismiss as “snake oil” —again, CA/SCL was not *magical* but it was also not nothing.
One for more time folks! It doesn’t matter if you think Cambridge Analytica wasn’t “effective” but it really does matter if they were an illegal operation. And @CampaignLegal now alleges serious illegal coordination in ‘16 via @garanceburke apnews.com/article/electi…
The new document trove that supports these stunning campaign violation allegations is available here. The Cambridge Analytica saga is not over yet even though so many really wish it would be over. It just isn’t. archive.org/details/ca-doc…
Here’s @brendan_fischer from @CampaignLegal on this important new complaint. He has been working on this for years. The reckoning has finally arrived. campaignlegal.org/update/newly-p…
In May 2017, Cambridge Analytica threatened to sue @ObserverUK
It took a team of editors, reporters & lawyers to keep publishing. Their knowledge of this story is unmatched by any other publication
I hope you will read their view of this week’s headlines
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It took a team of editors, reporters & lawyers to keep publishing. Their knowledge of this story is unmatched by any other publication
I hope you will read their view of this week’s headlines
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This leader wasn’t my idea & is not my words. But I’ve been lucky enough to work with hugely talented & impressive colleagues who have grappled with the detail - & legalities - of it over *years*. It’s only because of their commitment & brainpower that *any* of this could be told
Shonky homemade video of #TheGreatHack because I want to name check some here: @sarah_donaldson without whom there *literally* would be no Cambridge Analytica story. The brilliant @_EmmaGH whose reporting skills made it happen. @ladywell23 who fought off CA’s & FB’s lawyers
You must watch the couple in Wisconsin, the husband is anti-Trump, the wife is pro-Trump. The moment when she sees her own data profile is gold. #DeterringDemocracy #TheGreatHack #DataRights
channel4.com/news/how-trump… via @krishgm
channel4.com/news/how-trump… via @krishgm
The two seminal moments of @Channel4News exposé are when the Black WI voter learns she was targeted for deterrence, she exclaims it makes it her want to vote even more. When Trumpy mom realizes she’s under invasive voter surveillance is the complement.
Transparency and visibility dissolves the effect. The minute voters can see their profiles, the power of this data collapses. This is why politicians and strategists will resist us winning our #datarights.
The Cambridge Analytica saga breaks wide open again. The proof is finally being revealed. We always knew the truth was right there in the data.
You know who must have known about the RNC’s Black vote deterrent data structure as revealed by @Channel4News?
Jared Kushner. But is Brad Parscale the designated fall guy? #DeterringDemocracy
Jared Kushner. But is Brad Parscale the designated fall guy? #DeterringDemocracy
@RepSpeier asked the question. Parscale responded with a false statement that tonight’s @Channel4News exposé will clearly and unambiguously reveal.
#DeterringDemocracy
#DeterringDemocracy
Banks: We just send our criminal activity to the feds.
Feds: We can’t tip the criminals off on our surveillance of their criminal activity.
Businesses: The public can’t know about criminals because rich people spend lots of money to protect their privacy.
buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files
Feds: We can’t tip the criminals off on our surveillance of their criminal activity.
Businesses: The public can’t know about criminals because rich people spend lots of money to protect their privacy.
buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files
Criminals get all the privacy. The rest of us get none. #DataRights #TheGreatHack
If Biden wins we have to press him hard to kill anonymous shell companies. This is going to be really hard because Delaware is ground zero for sketchy secret companies that enable a global money laundering system that shields organized crime, the entity he is running against.
Russia got our voter data which is what I assumed the whole time.
Love to see folks saying voter data is public and for sale by data brokers so there’s nothing to see here. It’s not like the #SSCIvol5 didn’t sound the warning bell on our lax approach to data privacy making us sitting ducks for abuse by adversaries. #TheGreatHack
Why did the Mercers company export our voter profiles to the UK? Even Manafort henchman Rick Gates was worried about our data ending up there. And he was sending it to a Russian intelligence agent over WhatsApp! #SSCIvol5 #TheGreatHack
The biggest digital forensics investigation by a data protection authority ever undertaken, analyzing many terabytes of US electoral and OCEAN data on servers seized under criminal warrant for violations of the UK Data Protection Act of 1998…appears to have been abandoned.
Last year, the ICO claimed to @CommonsDCMS that analysis of the seized CA/SCL servers was forthcoming. @EmmaLBriant confirms that this effort has been abandoned at the discretion of the Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, without explanation. #TheGreatHack
At great personal risk, we obtained this document by UK court order as instructed by @RaviNa1k. It indicates how ICO struggled to get passwords for seized servers with pressure applied to the administrators of CA/SCL. We believe my lawsuit helped pry open these locked servers.
Got my Cambridge Analytica Google alert. Not a single article covering the revelations about the company in the final Senate Intel Committe report released yesterday. #TheGreatHack #SSCIvol5
SCOOPS:
—Neither Nix nor UK authorities cooperated
—Rick Gates was concerned US voter data being processed in UK by SCL
—CA/SCL cooperation w/ PSY Group and Colt/VizSense indentifed
—Same data shared with RU intelligence agent used by CA/SCL for campaign
—Unclear on psychometrics
—Neither Nix nor UK authorities cooperated
—Rick Gates was concerned US voter data being processed in UK by SCL
—CA/SCL cooperation w/ PSY Group and Colt/VizSense indentifed
—Same data shared with RU intelligence agent used by CA/SCL for campaign
—Unclear on psychometrics
And those scoops don’t even include the many flavors of evidence from @chrisinsilico and @OwnYourDataNow/@HindsightFiles #TheGreatHack #SSCIvol5
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence did not have the cooperation of Alexander Nix. In the following thread, I catalogue the instances I believe Nix misled, deceived, weaseled, and subterfuged the GOP led House Permanent Select Committee sham skype. #SSCIvol5 #TheGreatHack
Nix refused the Senate and lied to the House. #TheGreatHack
It gets worse. The SSCI did not have the cooperation of the UK authorities. The seized server forensics remain shrouded in mystery to this day. #TheGreatHack
There’s a whole section on Cambridge Analytica in the just released SSCI report. Digging in now. #TheGreatHack
Just posting stuff as it jumps out at me as I scan thru this. Press pushed narrative that "psychographics weren't even used" but maybe reporters were trusting unreliable narrators and operatives with skin in the game. #SSCIVol5 #TheGreatHack
Because @JamieJBartlett got Nix to finally admit on camera that "legacy data models" from the Cruz campaign were used in the Trump campaign, this diagram makes sense to me in the weasel-worded non-denial denials. #SSCIVol5 #TheGreatHack
Folks are preoccupied with Bannon’s appearance instead of the news that a bipartisan Senate call for an investigation into his alleged lies to Congress spawned from Russia investigations appears to have been unexplainably scuttled.
Remember, Steve Bannon got away with Cambridge Analytica scot free and now Bill Barr appears to have shielded him from a bipartisan call for a perjury prosecution. Maybe there’s another explanation but that’s what it looks like to anyone paying attention. https://t.co/FAILiZOz3b
Trump noticed that Steele’s firm received a UK Data Protection Act of 1998 violation but this is the exact same law Trump’s Cambridge Analytica violated. Which is worse, a privacy breach against a couple of Putin’s oligarchs or all US registered voters?
When I began my effort to get Cambridge Analytica busted for mass data abuse under the UK DPA 98, I was warned that the English justice system was made for the rich, especially Russian oligarchs. So true. So true.
Just in case you’re a recent follower and haven’t seen me tweet this excerpt from @ICOnews report on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook mass data abuse scandal #TheGreatHack ico.org.uk/action-weve-ta…
Facebook knows exactly how and why it’s a malign force in the world but its appeasement of the far-right traps us all in a viscous loop of radicalization, polarization, disinformation, and social decay. #TheGreatHack wsj.com/articles/faceb…
*A vicious loop. Not a viscous one.
Prof @sivavaid puts it most succinctly in his book; reiterated by @Moonalice in his: “The problem with Facebook is Facebook.” #TPWFIF
Am I the only one who still remembers that the ICO has never released its final forensic report on its unprecedented analysis of the seized Cambridge Analytica servers?
Here’s @ICOnews deputy commissioner in April 2019 to @CommonsDCMS subcommittee describing a pending report on the seized CA/SCL servers “in due course” but I fear they have abdicated on this as well @mattburgess1 #TheGreatHack
The @ICOnews reported that it found US electoral data and psychological profiles in connection with US presidential elections but we have not yet been offered the narrative of how our data was unlawfully processed in the UK in contravention of UK law.
The urgency to regulate political microtargeting cannot be overstated. #TheGreatHack
Data Privacy is Bipartisan: “75 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of Democrats believe no individual-level data should be used by political campaigns to target them online” per Knight/Gallup washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
Custom Audiences should be banned for all purposes. It’s truly appalling that Facebook hasn’t voluntarily offered a moratorium for 2020. The best they’ve offered is a buried opt-out that no one will find and use, a control that should have been there since 2013 when it launched.
1. anche se ne ho parlato già ieri sera in inglese, rispondo a chi mi continua a chiedere dell'articolo del #DailyBeast, secondo il quale #ArronBanks avrebbe vantato un canale di comunicazione con Julian #Assange e #WikiLeaks, che trovate qui in inglese: thedailybeast.com/man-who-bankro…
2. ho spiegato ieri sera perché sono completamente scettica riguardo a gente che va a vantarsi in giro di "un canale" con Julian #Assange: sono anni che #Guardian, #DailyBeast, ecc pubblicano questi articoli senza uno straccio di prova
3. dunque secondo le ricostruzioni giornalistiche, #ArronBanks sarebbe stato l'uomo della #Brexit in combutta con i #russi
Here’s the great @PeterBradshaw1 with his #BAFTAs predictions. He thinks #TheGreatHack *should* win. I suspect it will be worthy winner #ForSama but we’ll see...
theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/…
theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/…
Look who I found in the Royal Albert Hall! Only the recently deposed @DamianCollins who got shafted off the DCMS committee. ‘It was that fucker Dominic Cummings, wasn’t it?’ I said. He neither confirmed or denied...
tfw ur in the #BAFTA program being a data nerd on the whiteboard
