Paris taxi drivers have brought the French capital to a halt in another protest against Uber. Some 300 taxi drivers blocked major roads, lit fires and threw smoke bombs during the ugly scenes. Even worse, the Luddites are protesting under the banner “#JeSuisTaxi”:
Such bad taste is reminiscent of London cabbies’ exploitation of the Leytonstone jihadi incident last month. Stay classy.
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.”
