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Cambridge Analytica Staff Set Up New Firm

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the here-we-go-again dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Former staff from scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica (CA) have set up another data analysis company.

Auspex International will be "ethically based" and offer "boutique geopolitical consultancy" services, according to its website.

CA was shut down by its parent company, SCL Elections, which itself faces criminal charges over failure to supply data when requested.

Auspex will work in the Middle East and Africa initially.

The company was set up by Ahmed Al-Khatib, a former director of Emerdata, which was also created in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to continue the work it was doing.

In a press release announcing the new company, he says CA's collapse was a "bitter disappointment" to him.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:35PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:35PM (#708338) Journal

    Taking a step back from the details of TFA, it occurs to me that the material uses and abuses and real effects on the world social media has on the world now are things we geeks started talking about 20 years ago (in the specific form of discussion and information over the Internet). Then, we wondered, incredulous, that no normies thought it was worth wasting time thinking or talking about. "Who cares?" and "You're weird" or blank stares were typical responses. Now it's the end of the world what people say online.

    So there we have a good rule of thumb for how long it will take our innovations to really change the world, in that it takes 15-20 years for non-techies to understand and use what we have built. Anyone with a startup should take that into account.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:35PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:35PM (#708368) Homepage Journal

    it takes 15-20 years for non-techies to understand and use what we have built

    Or for their kids to build up enough pocket money to buy and learn the tech for themselves and eventually teach the basics to Ma'n'Pa.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:06PM (#708381)

    This is why we should have genocided all the normies long ago.