On Facebook and Globalization
Photo by Business Insider UK As someone who finds data-driven technology as the prime mover of the future, I think that it's apt to look at our how we consume and get consumed by its very nature. After all, there's still much that's left think about when it comes to our boundaries in the online world. With that, one can recall Facebook’s latest issue with regards to a data firm called Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, which provided the Donald Trump presidential campaign with digital voter outreach services. Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American psychology professor, was said to be the person behind the act. Initially, he created a Facebook app which harvested more than 270,000 user data from a personality quiz that was linked to users' Facebook profiles. From there, Aleksandr Kogan was reported to have transferred the data to Cambridge Analytica. Now, more than 50 million user data have been collected through his ap...
