Please Request Your Personal Data Held by Cambridge Analytica

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by wslh • 9 years ago

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tyingq• 9 years ago

Supposedly, this path is open to even non UK residents, since the processing likely happened in the UK.

"According to the UK Data Protection Act 1998 implementing EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, any individual whose data is processed in the UK has the right to access it (Article 7), regardless of nationality. "[1]

[1]https://medium.com/personaldata-io/cambridge-analytica-demon...

codegladiator2• 9 years ago

Not sure if this page will send a similar request

http://datarequests.cambridgeanalytica.org/

Found it at the bottom of their home page.

zwarag• 9 years ago

How can I be sure to get more data then what I would give away in that form?

codegladiator2• 9 years ago

Haha, nice catch. It seems there is no way to know that.

Someone• 9 years ago

On May 25, 2018, when the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... comes into effect, EU citizens will have the right to ask this from any company doing business with EU citizens, under its “data portability” provision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...)

mtkd• 9 years ago

GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee.

It also has potential to spawn new greasy organisations that facilitate mass requests for personal info on your behalf which could lead to some new PPI-style compensation claim situations.

It's a good step for custody of identity information but I'm not sure impact has been completely thought through.

pointytrees• 9 years ago

Lawyer for the U.S. business I work at said that we can look at it more in the coming year since he suspects it won't come to life in its current form for the exact points you make.

Guess we will see. I'm all for individual rights and privacy, but there should also be options that are reasonably achieved by all parties.

legulere• 9 years ago

We already have something like this in Germany and no such thing has happened.

Veratyr• 9 years ago

GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests

Another way of looking at it is that it adds significant incentives for organizations to make user data more easily accessible to users. There's no reason information requests _have_ to be expensive operations.

CapacitorSet• 9 years ago

GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee.

@vecna (https://github.com/vecna, former Hacking Team employee turned privacy activist) is working towards that, and I think he wouldn't mind contributions.

eistrati• 9 years ago

Did you send it to this address (the one in their website's footer): 55 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1BS ?

exabrial• 9 years ago

Hey guys, I don't come to Hacker News to read about doxxing targets.

eberkund• 9 years ago

It's your own information...

nathancahill• 9 years ago

whois 127.0.0.1

Finch2192• 9 years ago

Can't we do a little better? If this is 'So important' - why is it relegated to one small blog and why is it entirely up to us to mail this letter? Truthfully, I don't know what this 'high stakes' fight should resemble, but I hope it does not consist solely of a bunch of people mailing letters.

mwfunk• 9 years ago

If you don't think it's important, and the fact that you put 'so important' and 'high stakes' in quotes implies that you very much don't think it's important, then you'll make much more of an impact if you instead post about why you don't think it's important. Otherwise you're just indirectly insinuating things without evidence, a la the "hey I'm just asking the questions" people on AM talk radio, /r/conspiracy, etc. Asking questions is great, but most people's interpretation of what you wrote is that you're not asking a question, but rather making a statement in the form of a question so that you're not obligated to present a counterargument to support what you're strongly implying.

Alternately that's not what you were trying to communicate, and instead you're just innocently misusing quotation marks, in which case sorry for misunderstanding your point. Anyway that's probably why you're getting downvotes from some people. Little details like the quotes can completely change the interpretation of what you're communicating.

spraak• 9 years ago

So what are you suggesting instead?

kusmi• 9 years ago

Cambridge analytica is propped in a major way by Robert Mercer of Renaissance Technologies. See, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-....

I happen to work near their corporate headquarters in NY, and I can't tell you the number of times I had to fight the urge to get into their network.

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