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rainbow4321

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7. Their parent company has a US State Dept contract
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:59 AM
Jul 2017

Which doesn't seem like a good thing...now other countries' citizens can be getting THEIR personal info scooped up and kept in a data base...just like was done to US citizens by Cambridge Analytica. Gee, wonder who pulled strings to get them THAT CONTRACT? Notice the article brings up Flynn's name. Happened on his short watch, apparently. You have to wonder will any world wide data collected make it's way to Putin's inbox if he decides to target a country/leader. All he needs to do is give Trump a call and have the State Dept activate this collection program.

https://medium.com/textifire/scl-group-joins-the-us-state-dept-ad5cac8155ff

SCL Group, the shadowy psychological marketing data conglomerate involved in both the Donald Trump and Brexit victories, has recently been awarded a defense contract with the US State Department’s newest propaganda unit, aided by the recent lobbying and advisement of the disgraced former National Security Adviser and now-registered foreign agent Michael Flynn.

Reams of information abound across the internet if you require a primer on the involvement of SCL Group subsidiary Cambridge Analytica as part of Steve Bannon errr Donald Trump’s presidential campaign powerhouse data team (alongside Brad Parscale, Gary Coby, and the RNC tech squad) and Brexit’s Leave media operations teams.

In a nutshell, things like your credit report, voting record & address, purchasing habits, harvested internet interactions, and stolen social media histories are compiled into highly personalized, actionable demographic & psychometric profiles detailing how your specific brain works, which become very useful to advertisers or electioneers should they desire to guide your opinion or intent.

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K&R Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2017 #1
K&R Solly Mack Jul 2017 #2
Kushner and Mercer? Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #3
Wow YCHDT Jul 2017 #4
Yup...Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, Parscale, Project Alamo... rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #5
Thank you, Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #6
Their parent company has a US State Dept contract rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #7
When someone can Pirate a E-mail and Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #8
Damn...now imagine Trump/Russia doing this via our State Dept. rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #9
My take is,we should have seen this coming . Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #10
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