Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, Brexit and Facebook Broke Democracy Audiobook (Free)
- Brittany Kaiser
- 13 h 4 min
- HarperCollins Publishers UK
- 2019-10-22
Summary:
Within this explosive memoir, a politics consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, uncovering to the general public how companies are receiving richer using our personal information and revealing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws and regulations to help elect Donald Trump.
When Brittany Kaiser joined Cambridge Analytica – the UK-based political consulting firm funded by conservative billionaire and Donald on the subject of Targeted: My Inside Tale of Cambridge Analytica and exactly how Trump, Brexit and Facebook Broke Democracy Trump patron Robert Mercer – she was an idealistic young professional focusing on her fourth degree in human being rights legislation and international relations. A experienced of Barack Obama’s 2008 marketing campaign, Kaiser’s objective was to utilize data for humanitarian reasons, most notably to avoid genocide and human being rights abuses. But her experience inside Cambridge Analytica opened her eyes towards the great risks that this unregulated industry poses to personal privacy and democracy.
Targeted is Kaiser’s eyewitness chronicle of the dramatic and troubling story of the rise and fall of Cambridge Analytica. She reveals to the public how Facebook’s lax plans and lack of sufficient national laws allowed voters to be manipulated in both Britain and america, where personal data was weaponised to spread fake information and racist messaging during the Brexit vote and the 2016 election. But the damage isn’t carried out Kaiser warns; the 2020 election can be compromised as well if we continue steadily to do nothing.
In the aftermath of the U.S. election, as she became aware of the horrifying actuality of what Cambridge Analytica got done in support of Donald Trump, Kaiser made the tough choice to expose the truth. Risking her profession, associations, and personal security, she told authorities about the info industry’s unethical business methods, eventually testifying before Parliament.
Filled with never-before-publicly-told stories, Targeted goes in the secretive meetings with Trump campaign personnel and details the guarantees Cambridge Analytica designed to win. Throughout, Kaiser makes the case for regulation, arguing that legal oversight of the info industry isn’t only justifiable but essential to ensuring the long-term safety of our democracy.
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