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Ted Cruz Using Firm That Harvested Data On Millions Of Unwitting Facebook Users
theguardian.com ^ | December 11, 2015

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

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cambridgeanalytica; cds; cruz; dirtytricks; election2016; facebook; hata; old; oldnews; putinistas4trump; robertmercer; tedcruz; texas; zzzzz
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1 posted on 01/30/2016 9:07:57 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

I WONDERED what happened to my hata ... I know I hung it on the hook and PBBBFFT, it was gone !


2 posted on 01/30/2016 9:09:27 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Helicondelta

I never put my Hata on Facebook.


3 posted on 01/30/2016 9:11:28 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: Helicondelta

This doesn’t jive with his Tea Party image. This is NSA kinda stuff.


4 posted on 01/30/2016 9:11:40 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: knarf

I date when that happens.


5 posted on 01/30/2016 9:11:52 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Helicondelta

Keep your name out of public media and it can’t happen


6 posted on 01/30/2016 9:12:11 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Exactly! this does not sound good coming from a “Constitutionalist Conservative”


7 posted on 01/30/2016 9:12:49 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: meatloaf; knarf

Epic.

Just epic.

:D


8 posted on 01/30/2016 9:12:51 AM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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To: knarf

somebody really posted this with a serious inclination?

Well, I HATA run, ttyl!


9 posted on 01/30/2016 9:13:21 AM PST by dp0622
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To: Helicondelta

Harvested HATA? Is this some kind of a new vegie? When is Hata season?


10 posted on 01/30/2016 9:13:46 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: P-Marlowe
This is NSA kinda stuff.

It's Facebook kinda stuff, which I think is even worse.

11 posted on 01/30/2016 9:14:13 AM PST by snarkpup (My goal in life is to die of old age before the country does.)
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To: knarf

Hata ar din!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfcKtRQW8


12 posted on 01/30/2016 9:15:11 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: P-Marlowe

Imagine if this came out before the debate on Thursday? Would have been fireworks for sure between Paul and Cruz on this one.


13 posted on 01/30/2016 9:15:32 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Helicondelta

Well .. if you’re dumb enough to put your personal “Hata”, then you should expect to get mined.

I don’t do Facebook or Twitter. Email is bad enough.


14 posted on 01/30/2016 9:15:39 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: meatloaf

Hopefully you’re not married.


15 posted on 01/30/2016 9:16:02 AM PST by Rusty0604 (1q)
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To: Helicondelta

But not voting in 2012 was a vote for Obama, wasn’t it?


16 posted on 01/30/2016 9:16:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m stuned that such a thing could happen to my hata.


17 posted on 01/30/2016 9:16:16 AM PST by mkmensinger
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To: Helicondelta
I know I hata Ctl+V just a minute ago. Where could it have gone?
18 posted on 01/30/2016 9:16:31 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked!)
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To: Patriot Babe

https://youtu.be/jkQz8vZ0jsU

This is pretty creepy


19 posted on 01/30/2016 9:17:22 AM PST by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: dowcaet

This has been out before now. I’ve read about it several times during his campaign.


20 posted on 01/30/2016 9:17:35 AM PST by Rusty0604 (1q)
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