Cambridge Analytica

I think it's everyone that this responds to.

And a really interesting story around this, I'll illustrate it with a story because there is a chapter in the book, the one I led on with, packed full of examples of, you know, from Cambridge Analytica, know data being scraped uh you know insider leaks to journalists but recently and i've been working on an academic paper around hacking and i did a post this is you couldn't have asked for a better case study i did a post on linkedin saying you know i'm working on a an academic paper I'm sure many of you have had issues with your social media accounts.

If anyone has been hacked and would like to share the story with me, please send me a DM.

And I did get some DMs and, you know, scary but really useful case studies.

So it is a deep, deep threat to democracy.

We already saw it way back with Cambridge Analytica, for example, people not understanding because the thing about algorithms is they hide behind these black boxes.

So when you're going, oh, that's so interesting.

You know, this ad showed me this pair of shoes.

There were many.

There was a Chinese one, Christopher Wiley and Cambridge Analytica, which you're familiar with.

That was probably one of the biggest ones.

Many others resigned and talked about it.

So so stop surveillance for profit.

The second is stop coded bias.

The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower was among the first to say this because he said he said this to me.

He said digital colonialism didn't die.

Why is Daily Caller hyping this idea of a rogue AI? Maybe Daily Caller needs to be ignored a bit more Kind of like I'm starting to do Every time one of these news outlets puts this out I devalue their data that much more To the point where essentially I'm going to stop listening to them Because of this type of nonsense But who are we supposed to hold accountable? Again, the AI did nothing wrong The AI did exactly what it was told to do It accessed the database, it found access to The fact that the database was supposed to charge a fee And apparently that was not I'm guessing that was not charged But it was publicly accessible It was public information It was not any of the confidential information Why are people doing it? Maybe we need to hold them a little bit more accountable Kind of like New Mexico is doing with Meta Right? A Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found that the company committed almost 44 million violations of the state's consumer protection law.

Now, this grew out of the case in 2021 of Cambridge Analytica and the scandal where they found that Facebook was sharing information, private information.

And the lawsuit claimed that Facebook, now Meta, intentionally misled the public and specifically New Mexico users about how it handled personal data.

Looking at the special verdict form, The jury found a couple things They said Has the state proven that Facebook engaged In an unfair or deceptive trade practice With respect to the following statement Made by Mark Zuckerberg May 24, 2010 You have control over How your information is shared We do not share your personal information With people or services you don't want We do not give advertisers access to your personal information We do not and never will sell Any of your information to anyone Well, apparently that is specifically a false statement.