Top 22 Brittany Kaiser Quotes

Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?

I was like: the narrative should be that the work that we did was never paid for so Leave.E.U., by not registering that we did that work, are the ones that should be in trouble.

Ukip had undertaken a survey on why people wanted to leave the E.U. or not, and they also had membership data. So we were able to build personas out of that. That was work that would normally be paid for.

I think of myself as intelligent and strong and principled.

The use of data for political purposes wasn’t invented by Cambridge Analytica.

Alexander Nix has no interest in the Republicans or Democrats winning or losing.

What if in a permission-based structure, you could decide if you wanted to provide value to advertisers or to political groups? Or, for instance, share your medical data for cancer research? All those options should be available for an individual to make.

To be honest, it’s hard when you’re knee-deep in the trenches of an industry to see it how others see it.

I hadn’t lived in the U.S. for my entire adult life, so a lot of U.S. news agencies, I just had no idea.

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people’s data.

I’ve always had one completely nonaltruistic goal, which is to go to every country in the world.

Cambridge Analytica never took receipt of any data or undertook any modelling on behalf of Leave.E.U.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data – that’s their own human value – not to be exploited.

I’m not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.

Our data has been harvested, collected, modeled, and monetized – sometimes sold on as raw data, and sometimes licensed just for advertisers to be able to target us.

The biggest companies in the world right now are made up of trillions of dollars of digital assets that really, in my opinion, should belong to us as individuals.

Data is the most valuable asset in the world.

The proposal for how we were going to assist the Leave.E.U. campaign was to undertake the same type of research that we were undertaking in the United States.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That’s just a fact of data science.

I felt like I’d spent many years making excuses for my executives and making excuses for political candidates I was representing and their views, when some of those political views, in my mind, were very distasteful.

There’s a very low amount of data literacy around people.

I was very taken aback and disappointed in Sheryl Sandberg’s public statement that if an individual did not want to continue to share their data with FB they would have to pay. To me, that sounds like a threat. Continue to let us use your property or pay?