Targeted : the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower's inside story of how big data, Trump and Facebook broke democracy and how it can happen again / Brittany Kaiser.
Edition
First edition.
Publication Info.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
392 pages, 8 unnumbered page of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392).
Contents
A late lunch -- Crossing over -- Power in Nigeria -- Davos -- Terms and conditions -- Meetings and reunions -- The face of Brexit -- Facebook -- Persuasion -- Under the influence -- Brexit Brittany -- Straitjacket -- Postmortem -- Bombs -- Quake -- Breakup -- Inquiry -- Restart -- Of truth and consequences -- The road to redemption.
Summary
In this explosive memoir, Kaiser reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump, and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.