The Dark Side of Social Media
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:10 am
Recent events related to the massive leak of user data on Facebook have shown how vulnerable people are online in general and especially on social networks. The eWeek portal reminds us that the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica was able to obtain the personal data of 50 million Facebook users. The company is suspected of violating privacy policies and manipulating the opinion of Americans during the US presidential elections.
Cambridge Analytica has never hidden the fact that it nepal whatsapp data collects data on potential voters and develops strategic communications for conducting election campaigns on the Internet. It creates psychological portraits of users, and then builds targeted political advertising taking into account the behavior of people on social networks. It is noteworthy that in the online quiz organized by the contractor of the British company to collect data on user preferences, only 270 thousand users out of these 50 million took part.
The ability to cherry-pick a relatively small number of followers from a massive database highlights the power of social media to shape people’s behavior. Ginny Gebhart, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), believes the situation is made worse by the fact that most users did not consent to having their personal data accessed: “It was just taken away from us. We didn’t want to share personal information with any third party, especially one that no one had heard of until the situation became widely publicized.”
Cambridge Analytica has never hidden the fact that it nepal whatsapp data collects data on potential voters and develops strategic communications for conducting election campaigns on the Internet. It creates psychological portraits of users, and then builds targeted political advertising taking into account the behavior of people on social networks. It is noteworthy that in the online quiz organized by the contractor of the British company to collect data on user preferences, only 270 thousand users out of these 50 million took part.
The ability to cherry-pick a relatively small number of followers from a massive database highlights the power of social media to shape people’s behavior. Ginny Gebhart, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), believes the situation is made worse by the fact that most users did not consent to having their personal data accessed: “It was just taken away from us. We didn’t want to share personal information with any third party, especially one that no one had heard of until the situation became widely publicized.”