Take another look, tell me baby, who's zoomin' who?
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This week: the wizard of Facebook, drinking with Borges, and the strangest ad you'll ever see. CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA This is such a weird news story. The true parts aren't important and the important part isn't true. Entrapping political opponents in discussions of Ukranian affairs is obviously bad but not uncommon in the netherworld of political consultancy (and here it is half-promised rather than delivered on). As for the data stuff, well. CA breached Facebook's rules, but what they're doing - extrapolating voters' psychological profiles from online behaviour - is a service Facebook sells to all advertisers. Whether Facebook should be allowed to do that is a good question, but not a new one. (Personally speaking I don't care what Facebook does with the data it has on me, maybe I should, but when I read about people who have retrieved their Facebook data it never seems
Take another look, tell me baby, who's zoomin' who?
Take another look, tell me baby, who's…
Take another look, tell me baby, who's zoomin' who?
This week: the wizard of Facebook, drinking with Borges, and the strangest ad you'll ever see. CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA This is such a weird news story. The true parts aren't important and the important part isn't true. Entrapping political opponents in discussions of Ukranian affairs is obviously bad but not uncommon in the netherworld of political consultancy (and here it is half-promised rather than delivered on). As for the data stuff, well. CA breached Facebook's rules, but what they're doing - extrapolating voters' psychological profiles from online behaviour - is a service Facebook sells to all advertisers. Whether Facebook should be allowed to do that is a good question, but not a new one. (Personally speaking I don't care what Facebook does with the data it has on me, maybe I should, but when I read about people who have retrieved their Facebook data it never seems