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Old 07-08-2019, 07:08 PM
 
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Really?? Seems pretty similar to Cambridge Analytica/Facebook. Didn't they harvest data without consent?

This is a very short digital walk from Google data collection to Civis Analytics data harvesting being that the CEO has his hands in both pots.

Maybe someone can explain why this is different than what Cambridge did... other than assuming Civis is somehow NOT using Google's data collection capabilities.


Dems Pay Millions to Firm Backed by Google’s Eric Schmidt

A data firm backed by Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has been paid millions of dollars by Democratic committees and is currently working for Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

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The idea for what became Civis Analytics emerged in the wake of President Obama's 2012 re-election when Schmidt pitched Dan Wagner, the campaign's chief analytics officer, on creating a lasting political data and website services firm. Schmidt, who remained an executive at Google and Alphabet, went on to quietly aid Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Less than one month after the elections it was announced that he had helped round up $22 million for Civis, where he is also a partial owner and sits on the group's board of directors.

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Throughout the 2018 cycle, Civis collected more than $4 million from Democratic committees, filings show. Its biggest client throughout the midterm elections was the Senate Majority PAC, which cut more than $2 million worth of checks to the firm for research services.

 
Old 07-08-2019, 07:29 PM
 
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When the Republicans were accused of being involved with this sort of behavior, it was professed to be a direct assault on our Democracy. So surely there will be a similar reaction by the Democrat left mass media this time as there was around the previous episode.

amiright?
 
Old 07-08-2019, 07:31 PM
 
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When the Republicans were accused of being involved with this sort of behavior, it was professed to be a direct assault on our Democracy. So surely there will be a similar reaction by the Democrat left mass media this time as there was around the previous episode.

amiright?
not

a

chance.
 
Old 07-08-2019, 07:33 PM
 
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When the Republicans were accused of being involved with this sort of behavior, it was professed to be a direct assault on our Democracy. So surely there will be a similar reaction by the Democrat left mass media this time as there was around the previous episode.

amiright?
It doesn't exist in their world... even though it has existed since 2012.

Cambridge probably got the idea from them.
 
Old 07-08-2019, 07:39 PM
 
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If the Democrat left mass media collectively set it as their singular objective to be bigger partisan political hacks than they currently are, it is highly unlikely that they would be able to advance themselves beyond where they are right now.

These people really are not trustworthy at all.
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