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Clements Center
@ClementsCenter
🗓Mark your calendars! We're hosting a two-day conference “America’s Secrets: Classified Information and our Democracy” on Jan. 26-27 at the @LBJLibrary
with @PublicDeclass
, featuring keynotes from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Senator @JohnCornyn
.
10:35 AM · Dec 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/ClementsCenter/status/1605965149210169345
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
Here's how the biggest tech companies in the world have hijacked our personal data without our knowledge or consent and are using it against us to generate profits for themselves.
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1605997415386845189
Your entire existence — even your shifting moods, deciphered by facial recognition software — has become a source of revenue for many tech corporations. You might think you have free will but, in reality, you’re being cleverly maneuvered and funneled into doing (and typically buying) or thinking something you may not have done, bought or thought otherwise. And, “our ignorance is their bliss,” Zuboff says.
Zuboff also reviews what we learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica is a political marketing business that, in 2018, used the Facebook data of 80 million Americans to determine the best strategies for manipulating American voters.
Christopher Wylie, now-former director of research at Cambridge Analytica, blew the whistle on the company’s methods. According to Wylie, they had so much data on people, they knew exactly how to trigger fear, rage and paranoia in any given individual.
And, by triggering those emotions, they could manipulate them into looking at a certain website, joining a certain group, and voting for a certain candidate.