(03-24-2018 10:46 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog...li=BBnbcA1

The article does a good job discussing the difference between CA, and why the issue was raised recently. It was common knowledge and no secret that the Trump campaign used micro-targeting during the campaign. But when it came out that CA was unethically mining that data (mining data of people who didn’t authorize it, explicitly) and then keeping it after they were told to delete it, that is when the uproar started. Then the Channel 4 news story came out which saw them explicitly state that they have bribed/blackmailed officials in foreign countries, and developed propoganda that couldn’t be traced back to them, that the uproar grew.

It’s a bit of a false equivalency here, especially when you realize the issue isn’t the simple act of micro-targeting, but how that micro-targeting was developed and then executed.