MoD granted 'List X' status to Cambridge Analytica parent company [View all]

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/mod-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-scl-group-list-x

The chair of the Commons home affairs committee has called for a full investigation into the activities of Cambridge Analytica after it emerged that its parent company was granted provisional “List X” status by the Ministry of Defence until 2013, granting it access to secret documents.
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According to an assessment of the method by the Cdr Steve Tatham of the Royal Navy in 2015, it allows governments to “diagnose the exact groupings that exist within target populations”, leading to a ranking that “depends upon the degree of influence they may have in either promoting or mitigating constructive behaviour”.

It then uses “psycho-social research parameters” in order to “determine how best to change that group’s behaviour”.

So Cambridge Analytica learned this controversial research approach from military propoganda operation they were paid to take part in and then applied it to regime and policy changes in UK, US, Kenya, Brazil and who knows how many other countries.

I wonder also if they made use of the data from this and possibly other contracts in pushing Brexit.