Government’s Twitter Snooping Increases by 181%

New figures show the government has requested access to over 1000 Twitter accounts over the past year, a massive increase of 181% compared to the previous year. Twitter complied with over half of the requests…

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August 12, 2015 at 4:00 pm

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Dr Alexander Kogan, the app developer who originally harvested the Facebook data, said…

“I think what Cambridge Analytica has tried to sell is magic and made claims this is incredibly accurate and it tells you everything there is to tell about you. But I think the reality is it’s not that. If you sit down and you really work through the statistics and you think what does a correlation of point three means, those claims quickly fall apart. And that’s something any person with a statistical background can go and do.”

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