Cambridge Analytica and data exploitation - a critical intervention

Frederike Kaltheuner, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Ravi Naik The Cambridge
Analytica scandal is about campaign financing, possible law
breaking and Brexit. It’s also about money in politics. It’s about
the continuing irresponsibility of platforms like Facebook. It’s
about the systemic problem of data exploitation and surveillance
capitalism. It’s about targeted advertising, persuasion and
manipulation. It’s also about a shady company that has possibly
broken data protection laws (together with political campaigns, and
other data analytics firms). It’s about neo-colonialims and global
inequalities. It’s also about foreign interference in elections and
government propaganda (not just by Russia). It’s  about GDPR
and compliance - competition law and consumer protection.  In
other words: this is complicated.