Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far
I'm not incredibly surprised at the level to which Cambridge Analytica and the related companies were willing to stoop in order to offer the kinds of services that it's clients would pay for; what surprises me is that there are clear lines that can be drawn, that actually warrant further aggressive actions by the United States government. Just on August 31st, Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13924 into law. As is written in this piece of legislation; "Agencies should consider applying the rule of lenity in administrative investigations, enforcement actions, and adjudication by reading genuine statutory or regulatory ambiguities related to administrative violations and penalties in favor of the targeted party in enforcement." In plain speak, corporations suspected of actions as egregious as the things which Cambridge Analytica had engaged in are to be given the benefit of the doubt until there is absolutely no doubt. The investigators may issue an enforcement acti...