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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tiresais on May 08, 2017, 01:04:06 AM

Title: "Trinidad was SCL’s first project using big data for micro-targeting..."
Post by: Tiresais on May 08, 2017, 01:04:06 AM
From "The great British Brexit Robbery" article by the guardian;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

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David said: “The standard SCL/CA method is that you get a government contract from the ruling party. And this pays for the political work. So, it’s often some bullshit health project that’s just a cover for getting the minister re-elected. But in this case, our government contacts were with Trinidad’s national security council.”

The security work was to be the prize for the political work. Documents seen by the Observer show that this was a proposal to capture citizens’ browsing history en masse, recording phone conversations and applying natural language processing to the recorded voice data to construct a national police database, complete with scores for each citizen on their propensity to commit crime.

“The plan put to the minister was Minority Report. It was pre-crime. And the fact that Cambridge Analytica is now working inside the Pentagon is, I think, absolutely terrifying,” said David.

The article itself is as captivating as it is incredibly worrying - worth a read. The Trinidad link made my ears perk up!
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