Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm

[AmericanMan1958]

LONDON — Big data crunched in a nondescript office more than 3,000 miles from the U.S. might just convince you to cast a ballot for Donald Trump.

In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters.

The company says it holds data on 230 million adults across the U.S. — and around 4,000 "data points" on each of them.

However, privacy campaigners have raised concerns about such methods.

Daniel Nesbitt, research director of U.K.-based civil liberties activist group Big Brother Watch, said: "Citizens have to be told why their personal information is being collected, where it is going to be stored and who it may be shared with. Without this basic information citizens are going to be left in the dark about what is happening to their personal data and won't have a proper chance to say, 'no.'"

The Open Rights Group, which is a digital rights protection campaign, called the approach a "disturbing development."

This is very disturbing to me, on many levels. I am re-reading this to try to process this whole situation through my mind.
What are your thoughts?

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/trump-campaign-pays-millions-overseas-big-data-firm-n677321

[UCmeNdc]

1. Trump paying oversea hackers?

[UCmeNdc]

2. Where and to whom is this data really going?

Are these firms covered under US privacy laws?

[AmericanMan1958]

3. The more I think about our information being used in this manner

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And by whom, plus where it is being used.
The more violated I feel.
This is total Bull Shit!!!

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Same people involved in Brexit campaign.