Cambridge Analytica

Matt Hancock has just said on channel 4 that the Tory party has never had and does not have any connections with CA.

So all that money from Roger Gabb must be lies, whitewave.

ps apparently his link was on The Poverty of Brexit thread

politicalscrapbook.net/2018/03/revealed-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-director-donated-over-700000-to-tories/

How on earth did he know that he was getting people from Gnet reading his articles? (That bit feels rather sinister to me)

How the [very rude word] does he think we 'stumbled on him'? Could it be that some of us go to other places on the web besides Gnet..?

What a very strange comment for him to make...

And you say that was on the Gnet Facebook page, Jalima? (I have never been there though I do follow them on twitter)

ps apparently his link was on The Poverty of Brexit thread

Yes it was, dj's posted links to two of his blogs as I recall. But how would he know where his 'visitors' came from. Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?

All rather odd.
Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?
Well, it makes you wonder.

Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?

Yes, every web page does. It knows where you came from, how you found it (searching on Google - the keywords you used, a link, from FB etc), it knows the pages you visit, where you are located, how long you spend on each page and where you go at the end.

I thought I remembered that name (Odoni) and guessed it was from one of durhamjen’s many links.So, where does he write, he doesn’t sound a fan of The Guardian!

You wouldn't like him at all, lemon

You know a lot about blog pabes, primrose. How do you know all that?

Sorry, pages.

I don't think he would like lemon, either, Maizie, but that's okay as he would never go on gransnet.

Have just seen a photo of Brittany Kaiser, a senior CA exec sitting next to Arron Banks at the launch event of the Leave EU campaign [don't know how to copy it onto here, though...]

Can you post a link to it?

metro.co.uk/2018/03/22/eu-referendum-result-may-not-legitimate-due-facebook-scandal-warns-mep-7407581/

I hope there's a follow up to this.

However, the analytics firm is also under scrutiny over campaigning for the 2016 referendum when Britons voted to leave the European Union.
Cambridge Analytica and the leaders of the Leave.EU group have previously boasted about working together during the Brexit campaign. However, they have since retracted their claims, saying no contract was signed and no work was completed.

Parliament is investigating the links between Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU as part of an investigation into fake news.
Did Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU work together?
Arron Banks, the co-founder of Leave.EU, said in a book that in October 2015 his group hired Cambridge Analytica, a company that uses “big data and advanced psychographics” to influence people. In a November 2015, Leave.EU said on its website that Cambridge Analytica “will be helping us map the British electorate and what they believe in, enabling us to better engage with voters”.

In the same month, Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser spoke at a Leave.EU news conference. She said her organization would be “running large-scale research of the nation to really understand why people are interested in staying in or out of the EU”.
In February 2016, Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix wrote in Campaign magazine that his company was working for Leave.EU. “We have already helped supercharge Leave.EU’s social media campaign by ensuring the right messages are getting to the right voters online,” said Nix, who was suspended by the company this week.
Leave.EU’s communications director Andy Wigmore also said on Twitter last year that his campaign group had used the company. “You should use Cambridge Analytics,” he said, adding that he could “highly recommend them”.

I write a blog. Blog applications give you various statistics: how many page views there have been, from which countries people are viewing your blog, and how they got to it (e.g. via Facebook or Google, etc). The stats also tell you about what they call "Referring Sites".

I think that is the sort of thing primrose is talking about.

He may not like you either durhamjen come to that.(Odoni)
I think he may look at GN from time to time by the sounds of it although he wouldn't like to be associated with anybody old I bet.

So it was ok for Leave UK to use CA then?

Yes, that's very similar Baggs. I was talking about Google Analytics, applications like that. They give you all the details.

In principle I think use of statistics from firms like CA is fine. Obama did and nobody minded.

What's not fine is illegal use of personal data.

Obama's team at any rate.

How do you know all that?
I was going to post about apps for bloggers, but I see that Baggs has already done so.

Of course, we have data protection laws here and in the EU, but other countries may not have the same stringent laws and bloggers/social media sites could be based anywhere and use any information gained for whatever reason they wish.
www.cnil.fr/en/data-protection-around-the-world

For reference
pbs.twimg.com/media/DYhsaz3W0AA9bRn?format=jpg

What is that link,please, ww? And what reference?