From Engadget:
Throughout discussions about Cambridge Analytica, parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and how they came to obtain information on some 87 million Facebook users, you've probably also heard the name AggregateIQ. The Canada-based data firm has now been connected to Cambridge Analytica operations as well as US election campaigns and the Brexit referendum. Now, cybersecurity firm UpGuard has discovered a large code repository that AggregateIQ left exposed online, and through that we're getting a better look at the company, what it does and how it does it.
From the first of Upguard's multipart series:
On the night of March 20th, 2018, UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research Chris Vickery discovered a large data warehouse hosted on a subdomain of AIQ and using a custom version of popular code repository Gitlab, located at the web address gitlab.aggregateiq.com. Entering the URL, Gitlab prompts the user to register to see the contents - a free process which simply requires supplying an email address. Once registered, contents of the dozens of separate code repositories operated on the AggregateIQ Gitlab subdomain are entirely downloadable. Within these repositories appear to be nothing less than mechanisms capable of organizing vast quantities of data about individuals, measuring how they are being influenced or reached by advertising, and even tracking their internet browsing behavior.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @02:01PM
Tough question. Can it stop outsourcing and imports? Yeeeessss, I suppose it could. But, I don't see it happening. As with so many other issues (illegal alien invasions, for instance) the most vital ingredient is willpower. I'm not sure that America has the will, nor am I sure that Trump has the ability to impart such a will.
America can do damned near anything that it decides to do. We achieved the almost-impossible when we put people on the moon. Just about anything that the public takes a strong interest in can be done. But, we need someone like JFK to make the speeches that fire us up.
I don't really think that Trump can be that charismatic mouthpiece that fires up the public. Then again - maybe he can be. The squirelly bastard proved all of mainstream media wrong by getting elected. He's got something, even if I can't identify with it.