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Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?

The Guardian Data Protection

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon • The six weeks that brought Cambridge Analytica down How do 87m records scraped from Facebook become an advertising campaign that could help swing an election? What does gathering that much data actually involve?

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How to Keep Hackers Out of Your Facebook and Twitter Accounts

WIRED Threat Level

Scammers, pranksters, and bad actors all want to break into whatever social media accounts they can. Here's how to keep yours safe.

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“Master” Your Knowledge of eDiscovery With This Conference in Chicago in Two Weeks: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

If you’re in the Chicago area or plan to be there on May 22, join legal technology experts and professionals at The Masters Conference 2018 Chicago event for a full day of educational sessions covering a wide range of topics! The Masters Conference brings together leading experts and professionals from law firms, corporations and the bench to develop strategies, practices and resources for managing the information life cycle.

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Commercial loan slump chips away at bankers’ reluctance to automate

Information Management Resources

A bank that can deliver a loan decision a little faster, or ask a client to input information just once, could get a leg up on the competition. But some executives are skeptical of software sales pitches and fear overpaying.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Another ½ billion

InfoGovNuggets

This may appear to be more a straight compliance piece than an information governance piece, but consider that the officers and directors didn’t know or didn’t report things that they should have known about. Truth or consequences? “Wells Fargo Reaches Settlement In Lawsuit,” The Wall Street Journal , May 5, 2018 B10. Tentative settlement in suit alleging certain “current and former officers and directors of the bank had made false statements” affecting the s

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In Sri Lanka, Facebook’s dominance has cost lives | John Harris

The Guardian Data Protection

As the tech giant spreads to poor countries around the globe, a pattern of false information leading to violence is emerging For the past six weeks or so, the snowballing story of Facebook’s crisis has been framed almost exclusively in terms of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco , the ethics of privacy and data harvesting, and the role the platform seems to have played in the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum.

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