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Homework Assignment Cover Sheet

Semester Spring 2017-2018

Course Title Technology and the Global Society

Course Code TECH 330

Assignment Type Individual

Submission Electronic copy to upload to Moodle

Instructor Dr. Mohammad Atwani

Due Date 17-April-2018

Total Marks 100 (5% of the total course Grade)

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Course Title: Technology and the Global Society Course Code: TECH 330 2 | P a g e

Q1: (100 points)

According the news, Cambridge Analytica, a company specialized in Data Mining in

support of digital campaigns, have harvested millions of Facebook users' data during

presidential election, and as a result, there are doubts that the such gathered data could have

been used to affect the results of the 2016 American Presidential elections.

Write down a five-pages report describing who could Cambridge Analytica achieve such a

target, data mining technology and its use in political campaigns and how the data mining

and social networking technologies were used by Cambridge Analytic to make such

influence, and suggesting ways to eliminate such attitude in the future.

You can use any form of reliable resource including news articles, technical reports, official

company websites, and audio and video resources.