It’s 2020. And the Cambridge Analytica story? It’s growing …
Remember Cambridge Analytica? You probably wish you could forget.
But 10 and a half months out from the next U.S. presidential election, former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser says there’s more we all need to know about Big Data and how companies like her former employer are using it to steer democracy.
Cambridge Analytica shut down in 2018 after it came out that the company improperly accessed data on tens of millions of Facebook users. (Facebook ended up with a $5 billion fine from federal regulators.) Kaiser met with Robert Mueller and British lawmakers, she appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” and last year she wrote a book, “Targeted.”
On New Year’s Day, she published a bundle of internal Cambridge Analytica documents online, giving more details about how her company operated separately and apart from the Facebook scandal at U.S. elections. With even more documents to come, Kaiser’s styled herself as a whistleblower, though privacy advocates and other critics have contested that.
For our first episode of the new year, we’re talking with Kaiser about big data, disinformation campaigns, election integrity and her new initiative, the Own Your Data Foundation. Plus, we’ll catch up on some of your emails and voice memos from the holiday break.
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