2018
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01139.x
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What can we learn from the Facebook—Cambridge Analytica Scandal?

Abstract: As the data‐based political consulting firm shuts its doors, we get the statisticians’ perspective on the story and its impact

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“…Use of personal data without explicit user consent has recently put technology companies in the public spotlight . In contrast, it appears that fewer concerns have been raised regarding the use of medical records and biospecimens, which are also sensitive, for secondary use purposes such as research.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Use of personal data without explicit user consent has recently put technology companies in the public spotlight . In contrast, it appears that fewer concerns have been raised regarding the use of medical records and biospecimens, which are also sensitive, for secondary use purposes such as research.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Breur (2016) points out that CEO of Trump's presidential campaign (2016) was a board member of Cambridge Analytica, a data firm later on associated with deliberate manipulation and fabrication of Facebook data (cf. Laterza, 2018;Tarran, 2018;Tuttle, 2018). Secondly, it is a known fact that social media data which is a part of big data can easily be faked and distorted (Breur, 2016).…”
Section: Intentional Misrepresentations: Distortions and Manipulation...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is typically sufficient for a city but inadequate when wishing to investigate usage at a country level. Further complicating this approach was a tightening of the geosearch API during the course of this study due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal [36]. To overcome these limitations, we implemented a simple yet novel method for extracting the images for an entire country using Instagram location ids.…”
Section: Instagrammentioning
confidence: 99%