One man’s gullible fuckwit is another man’s carefully chosen political appointee.
The ICO can be a nightmare to deal with
When they have you in their sights they can be uncommunicative, and the first thing you know of their decision can be a fine ‘leaked’ to the press.
When you ask them for clarification of their published material you get delays obfuscation, waffle, contradictory answers, fence sitting, passing the buck.
Sitting in a meeting with the ICO and HMRC at the same table is like an episode of Yes Minister without the comedy.
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Could not agree more, career pen pushers and box tickers.
Looking like they need more dirty private company cash as if you employ 250 people or more and/or turn over £36M, the ICO tax to companies will go from £500 per year to £2,700 per year. Nice tax if you can get it. Humphry has to pay for his new carpet and the bottles of port some how.
If you’ve got the time (& I mostly haven’t) it’s quite interesting to read Dominic Cummings (who ran the VL campaign) take on this affair & particular his & Vote Leave’s general view of Aaron Banks & Leave-Eu. He’s desperate to stress that Vote Leave used AIQ which he claims was entirely separate to CA and also that none of this targeted marketing had any effect anyway. He really is a cunt who has wrought a great deal of damage.
it strikes me that somehow VL was set up to appeal to better off Tories while Leave-Eu focused on getting the more working class, angry & somewhat racist vote out. Whether that was planned or just the way it turned out, I don’t know.
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No thanks, Dominic Cummings is a cunt.
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Agreed but I’ll enjoy watching him squirm as this gradually unravels.
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If marketing has no effect then why is the advertising industry worth tens of Brazilians per year?
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It takes a week for a warrant to be granted under data protection laws, and the defendants get notice, and get to argue the toss in court, unlike in any other warrant application in any other criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, earlier this week at CA (not the hifi company), during the notice period :
And anyone notice a similarity between the guy ushering Nix (CA head honcho) and the guy ushering out reams of documents …?
Yes but the ICO have been negotiating with them for access for over a month now, they should have just gone straight for a warrant.
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I’m guessing CA have dirt on enough string pullers to buy time
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Cambridge Analytica and Facebook face class action lawsuit
Maybe we’ll get to re run 2016?
This is a good piece.
Since The Observer and Channel 4 broke the Cambridge Analytica story almost a month ago, it’s notable that almost nobody has been more dismissive of its importance than various big beasts of the BBC, whose only question seems to be “does this derail Brexit?”, and even that is always delivered with an undercurrent of scorn at the thought that any idiot might think it could. Both of the Andrews — Neil and Marr — have been relentless in eye-rolling ridicule.
A fortnight ago, when I debated the story myself on the Today programme, Nick Robinson sounded chortlingly amused at the suggestion that adverts on social media could ever change anybody’s mind about anything. Perhaps he hadn’t noticed the $63 billion that Zuckerberg has made, almost entirely by persuading people that they do.
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It’s astonishing how “The Establishment” are simultaneously highly dismissive of social media while also making a great deal of use of it!
Certainly usage stats belie their attitude - Worldwide social media use in millions of users:
And a recently published paper finds that 2/3 Tweets linking other websites are posted by bots:
What’s true for Twitter will be true for all of them…
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According to Marx, history evolves through the interaction between the mode of production and the relations of production. The Media is a transmitter of information (Commodity), one of the most potent conduits of socialization (family / religion and education being other factors). Control of the mode of transmission therefor has the potential to forming beliefs and in turn behaviors. (Particularly as religion is in the decline and can also be manipulated via the media)
Vote Stronzetto.
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therefore
behaviours
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Socialisation
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