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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlynn may have helped get Cambridge Analytica/"Project Alamo" into State Dept
Full of info about how Flynn may have played a part in getting CA's parent company into the US government...applying same data gathering/sharing techniques as Kushner's Project Alamo.
Found the article link on Twitter. I went to the actual website and copied the link, don't know why the link here looks odd...may have to just copy it to your browser. Sorry!
https://medium.com/@textifire/scl-group-joins-the-us-state-dept-ad5cac8155ff
So the government buys Facebook ads using standard/enhanced Facebook-provided demographic targeting options, just like Trumps Project Alamo platoon did when they partnered with Cambridge Analytica, to the point where a Facebook employee was cited as the campaigns MVP by the RNCs data team lead. Gotcha. Well, at least when Lumpkin spoke in November 2016, he wasnt wishing for the ability to match online profiles to geolocated humans on foreign and domestic soil:
By definition the World Wide Web is worldwide. There is no passport that goes with it. If its a Tunisian citizen in the United States or a U.S. citizen in Tunisia, I dont have the ability to discern that. Therefore, I have trouble grabbing that personally identifiable information, Lumpkin said. If I had more ability to work with that [personally identifiable information] and had access
I could do more targeting, more definitively, to make sure I could hit the right message to the right audience at the right time.
OK. Crap. Well at least they didnt add on a secret 10th item to the GEC charter in the NDAA after the bill was released for public viewing but before finalizing it into law making it strangely ambiguous as to whether or not it is suddenly legal to compile data on and propagandize to American citizens on American soil! Thank goodness for small favors!
(10) Maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records (as such term is defined in section 552a(a)(4) of title 5, United States Code) for research and data analysis of foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts and communications related to public diplomacy efforts intended for foreign audiences. Such research and data analysis shall be reasonably tailored to meet the purposes of this paragraph and shall be carried out with due regard for privacy and civil liberties guidance and oversight.
5 U.S. Code § 552a Records maintained on individuals
(a) Definitions. For purposes of this section
(1) the term agency means agency as defined in section 552(e) [1] of this title;
(2) the term individual means a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence;
(3) the term maintain includes maintain, collect, use, or disseminate;
(4) the term record means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph.
Uhhhmmmm.
So thanks to Mike Turk-182 Flynn, now UKs SCL Group will partner with Rushin Rex Tillersons GEC as they collect and store examples in print, online, and social media, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda directed at the United States and its allies and partners, in order to maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records for research and data analysis, wherein the term record means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual, and where the term individual means a citizen of the United States?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Cambridge Analytica is bad as in horrible news.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)He's making a valid point here.....and with the State Dept now using CA and Project Alamo....they could get the same info on other counties' citizens just as they have US citizens. Our allies need to be just as concerned about the Trump data program/CA/Alamo as us. It allows CA/Alamo, under the guise of our State Dept, to get an extensive database on people around the world...all under the pretense of looking for terrorists, etc....
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This is how the Rethugs stole the election.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch, among others.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This story is only growing in size and totality.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)tinyurl.com
super easy...paste the link into the box, click with mouse and a very small link shows up.
If people ask what the link means, you can explain it to them, but I use it a lot and people here seem to know what it is for.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)It happens with medium.com articles.