Everyone collects our data… Apple, Google, third party apps… everyone. So what is the really concern with China doing it specifically? Everything I have tried to read about this just talks about how China will use it for ads, but that’s what tons of other tech companies are already doing… so why is China owning our data different?
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Watch the big hack on Netflix. Is a good review on Cambridge analytics.
One of the things they did was to shift an election by social engineering I believe it was Indian and black families.
Mass social engineering is only possible by understanding the masses and by encouraging specific views to be pushed to individuals.
Say from statistics they see that your the type of individual that could be undecided in an election since you don’t follow any specific leaning groups. They can then push more positive or negative content to you based on the candidate they think is more beneficial to them.
Even if they detect you lean one way or another, they can push more extreme content to you. They know that they can’t sway you, but by turning you into an extremist, with only partially true information they might isolate you from making a reasonable argument to sway other more undecided.
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