Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica https://www.npr.org/2022/12/23/1145303268/facebook-meta-cambridge-analytica-privacy-settlement December 23, 2022
Cambridge Analytica was in the business to create psychological profiles of American voters so that campaigns could tailor their pitches to different people. The firm was used by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign and then later by former President Donald Trump's campaign after he secured the Republican nomination.
According to a source close to the Trump campaign's data operations, Cambridge Analytica staffers did not use psychological profiling for his campaign but rather focused on more basic goals, like increasing online fundraising and reaching out to undecided voters.
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie then exposed the firm for its role in Brexit in 2019. He said Cambridge Analytica used Facebook user data to target people susceptible to conspiracy theories and convince British voters to support exiting the European Union. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was the vice president and U.S. hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer owned much of the firm at the time.
Original Case details: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23529033/facebook-inc-consumer-privacy-user-profile-litigation.pdf
Comment: One of the outcomes of the banktrupcy of CA, is that the algorithms are there for anyone to use. Most Parties seems to have IT cells, and they use this data. "panna pramukhs" could use apps like society management, gate management, security alarm systems and thus throw the privacy of the ballot in jeopardy.