Cambridge Analytica and the Kenyan Elections
Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires-data-firm-behind-trump... Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out? Interesting times....
This is an interesting development - I was seconded last year to CA during the Ted Cruz campaign and later during Donald's Trump campaign. And you are right - however it's not only an issue of data present ( which I am not sure it exists) but data collected was real-time and decisions made real time. That type of ecosystem is not easy to create - however am sure they will take the money and run. Yes irony of ironies even CA's data showed DT was going to loose - Regards, Eric Sent from my iPhone
On 10 May 2017, at 10:29, Grace Mutung'u via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires-data-firm-behind-trump...
Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out? Interesting times....
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Why would anyone want to intern with a psychological warfare firm, I ask him. And he looks at me like I am mad. “It was like working for MI6. Only it’s MI6 for hire. It was very posh, very English, run by an old Etonian and you got to do some really cool things. Fly all over the world. You were working with the president of Kenya or Ghana or wherever. It’s not like election campaigns in the west. You got to do all sorts of crazy shit.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-... ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh On 10 May 2017 at 13:44, Eric Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This is an interesting development - I was seconded last year to CA during the Ted Cruz campaign and later during Donald's Trump campaign.
And you are right - however it's not only an issue of data present ( which I am not sure it exists) but data collected was real-time and decisions made real time. That type of ecosystem is not easy to create - however am sure they will take the money and run.
Yes irony of ironies even CA's data showed DT was going to loose -
Regards, Eric
Sent from my iPhone
On 10 May 2017, at 10:29, Grace Mutung'u via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires-data-firm-behind-trump...
Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out? Interesting times....
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"Alfa Bank is a front for Russian intelligence. Along with Dimitry Firtash, a Russian agent of influence, it owns Cambridge Analytica, the data targeting company used by Trump’s campaign. It also owns SCL, the propaganda company responsible for what has been termed “fake news” but was actually real propaganda co-ordinated by Russian intelligence. Cambridge Analytica and SCL use Facebook data they had no right to acquire, illegally stolen by a Russian spy working at Cambridge, to build an unbeatable target database of propaganda. In the closing days of the election, the Russian state hacked into the voter rolls of the United States. Russian intelligence did this in order that they could provide this information to Alfa Bank in order to use Cambridge Analytica’s targeting, and SCL’s propaganda, in order precisely to target voters and tip them to Trump." https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/01/alfa-bank-trump-tower-and-a-social-media... Edwin Kiama Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Justice Entrepreneur, Human Rights Defender, #DevolutionIsRevolution Champion The Wanjiku Agenda Kenya Foundation (WAKenya) Ordinary, fearless Kenyans. https://www.facebook.com/wanjikurevolutionkenya https://twitter.com/WanjikuRevolt https://plus.google.com/u/1/+WanjikuMapinduzi/posts http://www.scribd.com/wmkenya "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~Margaret Mead On 10 May 2017 12:32 p.m., "Grace Mutung'u via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires- data-firm-behind-trump-brexit-victories_c1557720
Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out? Interesting times....
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Eric Mwangi -
Grace Mutung'u -
Harry Delano -
Mutemi wa Kiama -
Mwendwa Kivuva