data harvesting
Conspiracy theories tagged "data harvesting."
2 articles
Confirmed
Cambridge Analytica — Facebook Data Weaponized for Elections
Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million Facebook profiles without consent and used psychographic profiling to micro-target voters for Brexit and Trump — confirmed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie.
2014 · United Kingdom · Cambridge Analytica, SCL Group, Steve Bannon
Unresolved
TikTok / ByteDance CCP Data Harvesting
US government concerns and congressional hearings focused on whether TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance provides user data --- including location, biometrics, and behavior --- to the CCP.
2019 · China · ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, Shou Zi Chew