Or your ordinary everyday Hata?
Posted on 01/30/2016 9:07:57 AM PST by Helicondelta
Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.
A little-known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Robert Mercer
Mercer has given $750,000 to the Club for Growth, $2 million to American Crossroads,[8] and $2.5 million to Freedom Partners Action Fund.[9] In 2010, Mercer financially supported Art Robinson’s efforts to unseat Peter DeFazio in Oregon’s 4th congressional district.[10] In the 2013-2014 election cycle, Mercer donated the fourth largest amount of money among individual donors, and the second most among Republican donors.[1] The Mercer Family Foundation, run by Mercer’s daughter, Rebekah, has also donated to a variety of conservative causes.[1]
In 2015, the Washington Post called Mercer one of the ten most influential billionaires in politics.
Mercer is a major financial supporter of the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, contributing $11 million to a super PAC associated with the candidate.
He has been called “the biggest single donor” in the presidential race as of January 2016.
Source: Wikipedia
Helicondelta is one of those "Putinistas4Trump" characters.
He’s really into Big Brother tactics. Not good, indeed!
Cruz is toast. This and Glenn Beck and the mailer. If he wanted to destroy his own campaign, he couldn’t have done better than this.
I’m beginning to think that Sarah Palin saw some of these characteristics before she went in for Trump. I don’t know Ted Cruz. All I knew about him I learned by watching him on TV.
What will be the next shoe to drop?
You're WEIRD, man ...
/8^)
Correction to the article: using facebook is itself permission to harvest data.
I wonder if the GOPe will say the same thing if Trump is the nominee?
Or your ordinary everyday Hata?
HATA
The Hata clan (秦�) was an immigrant clan active in Japan since the Kofun
period (250-538), according to the history of Japan laid out in Nihonshoki.
Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA)
Hata Academy - Home Affairs Training Company
Hong Kong Association of Travel Agents
and on it goes
I keep my hata on my head and off of Facebook.
I consider myself the king of typos, but that was the best one ever!
This almost seems like a suicide vest, self-destruct button that’s been pushed.
This is bad, but it’s hard to imagine someone doing things this stupid when they stand for the exact opposite.
Cruz went big time after the media for “prayer shaming” after the San Bernardino shooting. He went after them for trying to “shame” him for using his daughters in a campaign ad.
I just don’t get it. Did he want to blow up on the eve of the election? If so, then to whose benefit? Rubio?
LOL So much for comparing Trump to Hitler. LOLOL
The GOPe wants to pull BS to force a Heb or Wubio nomination.
Anyone other than that... Lookout, the rage from the GOPe will be enormous.
he/she’s here all week folks :)
What about Sata?
you mean one of millions around here :)
I heard Ted used the word “damn” thirteen years, six months, 3 weeks, two days, 34 minutes and 25 seconds ago.
somebody get on it.
"No government follows you as much as a social network," Ilves said. "No government collects as much information about your preferences as a supermarket."
You're welcome
What the heck?!!
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