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'''Cambridge Analytica''' is a big [[data mining]] company. As well as commercial customers, they work for those in the "government space" and for the military.
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'''Cambridge Analytica''' is a privately held big [[data mining]] company. As well as commercial customers, they work for those in the "government space" and for the military.
  
 
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[[Alexander Nix]], CEO or Cambridge Analytica claimed to have "already healped supercharge leave.eu" A member of their staff was on the board of [[Leave.Eu]]. Their spending returns made no mention of leave.eu and they denied doing professional work for the campaign.
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[[Alexander Nix]], CEO or Cambridge Analytica claimed to have "already healped supercharge leave.eu" A member of their staff was on the board of [[Leave.Eu]]. Their spending returns made no mention of leave.eu and they denied doing professional work for the campaign, although this remains contested as of 2017.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/nigel-oakes-cambridge-analytica-what-role-brexit-trump</ref>
  
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''[[The Register]]'' reported "According to a story doing the rounds, psychometric big data pushed Britain into Brexit and Trump on to America. The winning sides adopted a method developed at the University of Cambridge to psychometrically profile people by using publicly available data including Facebook "likes"."<ref>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/07/cambridge_analytica_dystopianism/</ref>
 
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Cambridge Analytica is a privately held big data mining company. As well as commercial customers, they work for those in the "government space" and for the military.

Personnel

Cambridge Analytica had Steve Bannon on its board of directors.[1] The CEO was Alexander Nix.

Activities

Alexander Nix, CEO or Cambridge Analytica claimed to have "already healped supercharge leave.eu" A member of their staff was on the board of Leave.Eu. Their spending returns made no mention of leave.eu and they denied doing professional work for the campaign, although this remains contested as of 2017.[2]

The Register reported "According to a story doing the rounds, psychometric big data pushed Britain into Brexit and Trump on to America. The winning sides adopted a method developed at the University of Cambridge to psychometrically profile people by using publicly available data including Facebook "likes"."[3]

 

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