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I sure as shit hope so.
CurtEastPoint
(18,644 posts)dchill
(38,497 posts)I don't have a square to spare.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)interfering during the Brexit vote.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)A US professor is trying to reclaim his personal data from the controversial analytics firm that helped Donald Trump to power. In what legal experts say may be a watershed case, a US citizen is using British laws to try to discover how he was profiled and potentially targeted by the Trump campaign.
David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, has discovered a transatlantic legal mechanism that he hopes will give him access to information being sought by both the FBI and the Senate intelligence committee. In recent weeks, investigators looking at how people acting on behalf of Russia targeted American voters have focused on Trumps data operation. But although the FBI obtained a court order against Facebook to make it disclose evidence, the exact way in which US citizens were profiled and targeted remains largely unknown.
But British data protection laws may provide some transparency on the company at the heart of Trumps data operation Cambridge Analytica and how it created profiles of 240 million Americans. In January, Carroll discovered he and a group of other citizens had the right under UK law to ask for his personal data back from the company, and when it failed to supply it, he started filing pre-trial actions to sue the company under British law. The lawsuit is the result of a unique situation, according to Ravi Naik of Irvine Thanvi Natas, the British solicitor who is leading the case. It arose because although Cambridge Analytica is largely owned by Trumps biggest donor, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and though its vice-president at the time of the US election was Trumps former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, the company was spun out of an older British military and elections contractor, SCL, with which it still shares staff, directors and a London office.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/01/cambridge-analytica-big-data-facebook-trump-voters
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)treasure trove for some Investigative Reporters.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Frankly, we should all be doing it.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,114 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)I also want to see Bannon in Mueller's crosshairs (legally speaking).
dhol82
(9,353 posts)They are so deserving.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)seems way beyond the TWITLER Keystone Kops. I'm open to being corrected on this.