Big data’s power is terrifying. That could be good news for democracy
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/big-data-cambridge-analytica-democracy
Has a digital coup begun ? Is big data being used, in the US and the UK, to create personalised political advertising, to bypass our rational minds and alter the way we vote ? The short answer is probably not. Or not yet. A series of terrifying articles suggests that a company called Cambridge Analytica helped to swing both the US election and the EU referendum by mining data from Facebook and using it to predict people’s personalities, then tailoring advertising to their psychological (...)