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Традиционно британцев интригует вопрос внушаемости. Поэтому среди них популярны фокусники-менталисты вроде Деррена Брауна и шарлатанские учения вроде НЛП. Неудивителен и интерес к скандалу вокруг Cambridge Analytica и родственных ей компаний, которые пытались манипулировать избирателями, пользуясь их внушаемостью.

На сегодняшних слушаниях в британском парламенте "whistleblower" Кристофер Уайли (Christopher Wylie) поделился сенсационными сведениями о преступной деятельности этих компаний, включая сговор во время агитации за Брекзит.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-evidence-17-194/

The EU referendum was won through a fraud, the whistleblower Christopher Wylie has told MPs, accusing Vote Leave of improperly channelling money through a tech firm with links to Cambridge Analytica.
Wylie told a select committee that the pro-Brexit campaign had a “common plan” to use the network of companies to get around election spending laws and said he thought there “could have been a different outcome had there not been, in my view, cheating”.
“It makes me so angry, because a lot of people supported leave because they believe in the application of British law and British sovereignty. And to irrevocably alter the constitutional settlement of this country on fraud is a mutilation of the constitutional settlement of this country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/27/brexit-groups-had-common-plan-to-avoid-election-spending-laws-says-wylie



Выясняется, что компьютерный код для Cambridge Analytica разрабатывала мутная канадская компания AIQ (AggregateIQ). Она же участвовала в избирательных кампаниях других деятелей, включая сенатора Теда Круза, техасского губернатора Грега Абботта и украинской партии "Основа" донецкого олигарха Сергия Таруты.

AggregateIQ, a British Columbia-based data firm, developed the technology Cambridge Analytica sold to clients for millions of dollars during the 2016 US presidential election. Hundreds if not thousands of pages of code, as well as detailed notes signed by AggregateIQ staff, wholly substantiate recent reports that Cambridge Analytica’s software platform was not its own creation.
What’s more, the files reveal that AggregateIQ-also known as “AIQ”-is the developer behind campaign apps created for Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, as well as a Ukrainian steel magnate named Serhiy Taruta, head the country’s newly formed Osnova party.
https://gizmodo.com/aggregateiq-created-cambridge-analyticas-election-softw-1824026565



Дорога к нелегальным раздобытым данным избирателей разных стран ведет в Фейсбук. Марк Цукерберг изначально отказывался давать показания в британском парламенте, но после сегодняшних слушаний ему будет труднее отмазаться.

Considering the evidence that has been heard today with @chrisinsilico and @podehaye , Chair @DamianCollins reinforces the need for @facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to come and give evidence directly to @CommonsCMS. pic.twitter.com/qnjcaSWZuV
- Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (@CommonsCMS) March 27, 2018

Цукербурга (вместе с руководителями Твиттера и Гугла) также ждут для показаний в американском Сенате, которые назначены на 10 апреля.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, will hold a hearing on data privacy on April 10, 2018.
Grassley today invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at the hearing to discuss Facebook’s past and future policies regarding the protection and monitoring of consumer data.
The hearing will broadly cover privacy standards for the collection, retention and dissemination of consumer data for commercial use. It will also examine how such data may be misused or improperly transferred and what steps companies like Facebook can take to better protect personal information of users and ensure more transparency in the process.
Grassley also invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to discuss the future of data privacy in the social media industry and how to develop “rules of the road” that encourage companies to develop tailored approaches to privacy that satisfy consumer expectations while maintaining incentives for innovation.
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/chairman-grassley-announces-hearing-future-data-privacy-social-media

Facebook took out full page ads in the NYT, WSJ, WashPost, and 6 UK papers today https://t.co/kMA822kTpU pic.twitter.com/CUEYwyWuTT
- Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 25, 2018