Discussion: Cambridge Analytica Parent Company Ceases Operations

They are not gone, just changed name. Same people involved.

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Soon to be followed by numerous Trump Crime Family operations…

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The ad on the double crossing…er…decker bus is perfect.

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The same people doing the same work already incoprated as a new company, Emerdata, a few months back.

This is simply rebranding.

Pity TPM of all people didn’t bother to point this out.

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Exactly. That it seems TPM didn’t even bother to dig into this and point this out is rather disappointing.

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Regardless of the company name, I wonder if they’ll continue doing business with Steve Bannon.

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Well the new company will have prettier and more shiny people. :slight_smile:

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Following the Erik Prince business model:

Company laundering.

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It is so important to keep an eye on these people. They are at the heart of the crimes around the election. Everyone is talking about Facebook which is important but I think these people are a bigger problem.

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This is meant to isolate corporate liability than “re-branding” made necessary when the CEO let it be known that they were available to frame political enemies (and uncooperative friends) with evidence of compromising liaisons.

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Blackwater redux.

And what are they doing with the information they stole on over, what, 88 million people?

While we’re at it, maybe Facebook should change their name too, to Facepalm?

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Thanks, we’re going to keep updating this.

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Of course they’re not going away. They have the data, they still have multiple back channel pipelines to keep the data “fresh” and it is all hidden in nooks and crannies in the big puffy cloud.

As many others have pointed out, this is far from the first company the whitewash its name, isolate liability to that other bad, bad company and hang a new shingle in 24 hours.

Companies like CA are the data equivalence to pop-up restaurants without the good eats or integrity.

@matt_shuham - you’re a good reporter and writer and I for one appreciate that you read comments and actually respond. We can be a cranky bunch on occasion… :wink:

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Cambridge Analytica Parent Company Ceases Operations

They have a new company.

Same rats, different ship.

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Thanks for updating it so quickly. You clearly addressed the complaints raised by pac and lestatdelc.

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Here’s the connections–
https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

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When you are a corporate person, you can be born again, free of all past sins.

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Where is Anonymous when you need them? If Russian and Chinese hackers can get into the computer systems of banks, government departments and political parties, why aren’t any “white hat hacker” making life hard for companies like Cambridge Analytica, et. al.?

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No, they have an entirely new book of business, starting with a fresh new face named Beve Stannon.

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