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May 2018

Cambridge Analytica kept Facebook data models through US election

Facebook’s failure to compel Cambridge Analytica to delete all traces of data from its servers – including any “derivatives” – enabled the company to retain predictive models derived from millions of social media profiles throughout the US presidential election, the Guardian can reveal. Leaked emails reveal that when Cambridge Analytica told Facebook almost a year before the election that it had deleted data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users, it stopped short of agreeing to also erase derivatives of the data.

Connecticut Senate Passes Net Neutrality Bill

Connecticut moved one step closer to reinstating net neutrality along state lines when Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman cast a tie-breaking vote in the evenly divided Senate. The measure helps preserve an open internet, and enshrines the concept of net neutrality into state statute. “At the beginning of the year, Senate Democrats said we’d fight for a net neutrality bill in Connecticut, and this evening Democrats delivered on that promise,” said State Senator Terry Gerratana (D-New Britain).

NSA Triples Collection of Data From US Phone Companies

The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 534 million records of phone calls and text messages from American telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon in 2017 — more than three times what it collected in 2016. Intelligence analysts are also more frequently searching for information about Americans within the agency’s expanding collection of so-called call detail records — telecom metadata logging who contacted whom and when, but not the contents of what they said.

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