Beards Of Tech

Episode 43 19-Mar-2018/ Webcast Attendees Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Ryan Thompson Agenda First Half https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-stephen-hawking-has-died-aged-76-11289119 Stephen Hawking passes away at age 76 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/style/rihanna-snapchat-stock.html Racist advertising not necessarily the problem of the platform, but about the vetting of the ad platform hosted by the site. Second time stocks took a hit after a celebrity comment. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election 50 million facebook profiles breached in order to mass farm political data, allegedly used to build predictive targeting software used in recent elections Whistleblower was Christopher Wylie Through an app called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’ and an exploit to harvest the entire friends list of anyone using the app FB privately accepted Chris’ help, then publically banned himhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-suspended/