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How Cambridge Analytica profiled voters and what it means for India Voter psychological profiles were built to determine political enthusiasm, political orientation, frequency in voting and consistency in voting for the same political party Current Affairs   :An ongoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) request holding US based Cambridge Analytica blameworthy of “beguiling practices to reap individual data from a huge number of Facebook clients for voter profiling and focusing on” has revealed new insight into the matter of mental profiling planned for foreseeing voter conduct. The Commission’s organization spells in incredible detail the details, business and potential effect of voter profiling on political race results. How did the Cambridge Analytica model work? The now bankrupt association’s main Alexander Nix basically depended on new research that was done in University of Cambridge that utilized Facebook profile data to anticipate a person’s character as indicat...

Congress says WhatsApp alerted Priyanka Gandhi about possible hacking Accused the government of being involved in a “surveillance racket” Current Affairs :The Congress on Sunday asserted its pioneer Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had gotten a message from WhatsApp educating her that her telephone was suspected to have been hacked and blamed the legislature for being engaged with an “observation racket”, yet the BJP hit back saying the resistance was envisioning things that didn’t exist. AA WhatsApp representative stated: “WhatsApp thinks profoundly about the protection and security of our clients. We have just reached the clients straightforwardly we have motivation to accept were focused on. Clients can get in touch with us inside the application and we will react straightforwardly.” Continue Reading