| Allan Siegel on Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:30:47 +0100 (CET) | 
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| <nettime> The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops | 
| Hello The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops,from  Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is  
emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies  
specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract with  
government agencies. As they say about hedge funds, if the general  
public has heard their names that’s probably not a good sign. But there  
is now one data analysis company that anyone who pays attention to the  
US and UK press has heard of: Cambridge Analytica. Representatives have  
boasted that their list of past and current clients includes the British
 Ministry of Defense, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of
 State, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and NATO.  
Nevertheless, they became recognized for just one influence campaign: the one that helped Donald Trump get elected president of the United States. The kind of help the company offered has since been the subject of much unwelcome legal and journalistic scrutiny…. AND MORE Allan | 
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