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"The research was original, groundbreaking and had obvious possibilities. “They had a lot of approaches from the security services,” a member of the centre told me. “There was one called You Are What You Like and it was demonstrated to the intelligence services. And it showed these odd patterns; that, for example, people who liked ‘I hate Israel’ on Facebook also tended to like Nike shoes and KitKats.
“There are agencies that fund research on behalf of the intelligence services. And they were all over this research. That one was nicknamed Operation KitKat.”
The defence and military establishment were the first to see the potential of the research. Boeing, a major US defence contractor, funded Kosinski’s PhD and Darpa, the US government’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is cited in at least two academic papers supporting Kosinski’s work."
originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: Harpua
They are a mite late with this approach. This form of psychology has been going on for decades. A first line example (which sounds silly, but is not) in the late 1960s supermarket people employed psychologists to set out their store formats to make people buy something they didn't want. Very successful.
Now this idea has just been upgraded to cover the web, that's all. It's nothing new.
originally posted by: Harpua
Wow, everyone should read and digest this article. This reminds me of next level MKUltra type of manipulation. I believe we need a legal code of ethics for data harvesting. What say you, ATS?
"The research was original, groundbreaking and had obvious possibilities. “They had a lot of approaches from the security services,” a member of the centre told me. “There was one called You Are What You Like and it was demonstrated to the intelligence services. And it showed these odd patterns; that, for example, people who liked ‘I hate Israel’ on Facebook also tended to like Nike shoes and KitKats.
“There are agencies that fund research on behalf of the intelligence services. And they were all over this research. That one was nicknamed Operation KitKat.”
The defence and military establishment were the first to see the potential of the research. Boeing, a major US defence contractor, funded Kosinski’s PhD and Darpa, the US government’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is cited in at least two academic papers supporting Kosinski’s work."
www.theguardian.com...
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
That doesn't sound all that bad...but I believe we are at the point now where we can be manipulated like Pavlov's dogs on an individual basis without even needing to be in the same room as Pavlov.
Like the deep state needs more help pulling the strings.
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Yep, we are getting played like fiddles.
If you read the last paragraph, it makes it sound like facebook itself was a government funded project to collect data.
Which I wouldn't be too surprised about, John Perry Barlow consulted for the CIA and recommended this type of "soft power" data collection.
originally posted by: lordcomac
originally posted by: Harpua
I believe we need a legal code of ethics for data harvesting. What say you, ATS?
We only need one- outright ban data harvesting. Make it a felony.
Problem solved.
Which I wouldn't be too surprised about, John Perry Barlow consulted for the CIA and recommended this type of "soft power" data collection.