Cambridge Analytica seeks data protection assistant UK data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, whose HQ is a stone's throw from the buzz of Covent Garden in London, England, is on the hunt for a data protection assistant. The London offices are close to the British Museum and many iconic landmarks, so if you enjoy the sort of high-profile workplace that tech wunderkind Mark …
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I wrote a Crisis Management flowchart once - without approval, of course - and left a copy on everyone's desk. The gist of it was, no matter what you did, someone in management would kick your arse.
I never did own up to that one, although several department managers had their suspicions.
Given the probable lifespan left to CA, it's going to be a very short-term position.
Nature abhord vacuum
Свято место пусто не бывает
Die Natur schreckt vor der Leere zurück
This company was created for the purposes of deniably exercising our policy of intervention in the democratic process elsewhere. CA will live. Forever. Under different name(s). The key people will remain the same too - that is the nature of UK business especially ones which are connected at the hip to the DoD the same way the government is connected at the hip to the mob in cleptocracies.
Now, the position of the Data Protection analyst will definitely be short lived. Maybe even in more than one sense of this word.
Given the probable lifespan left to CA, it's going to be a very short-term position.
Hint any applicants... don't take them up on the offer for stock options. Ask for the money instead. And don't take anything personal for your desk decorations.
Icon: Mine's the one hanging right next to my chair. I've left the car running for a fast escape.
Required education: Bachelor's....So either they don't have that big of a problem, or they don't intend to be around for very much longer. And really? You need a Bachelors to understand data protection?
You misunderstand, Mr Wolfetone. Cambridge Analytica just want an unmarried male geek. Somebody happy to work late, come into the office at the drop of hat, live on a diet of pizza and cola gobbled in the office, educated in the bachelor customs of forgoing regular laundry and all personal hygiene in return for a shit salary and no thanks.
Married men wouldn't get away with that*, and all of womankind is too smart to even consider such a crap job.
* Except for the Outer Mongolian Custard Monster - see a few posts down.
Hands up all those who think that the ICO won't find diddly squat at CA. All the incriminating evidence will be long gone either to the shredder and incinerator and security erased after being copied to somewhere that governments in the west can't get at ... say Russia or China?
then next week, CA will go into Liquidation and rise from the ashes as Oxford Analytica.
Of the "supposed" (included for legal reasons) Honey Trap's, just to ensure they meet GDPR requirements (Gorgeous, Dirty, Perky and Real).
Even based on the little we know about the taste of politicians worldwide it is probably advisable not test ride the honey traps. They may not be to everyone's taste and you may end up on lists which is very difficult to get out of.
I showed this to my wife, and she said immediately "oh there you go, you like a challenge, you should apply". Thats why I love her, she's such a subtle troll at times :-)
One does presume it comes with a entire fireproof bodysuit and a liking for being pursued by angry mobs however. Perhaps they should rejig the title, "wanted, snowball juggler for important mission navigating hell".
The most amazing thing about this whole revelation is that people seem to genuinely believe that the other side weren't up to exactly the same
Oh, sure they were. They hired a worse agency.
They should have looked for references - whom did we use to interfere with democratic processes abroad since 1993. Who has appropriate references from 3 letters in more than one 5 eyes country. Instead of that Clinton campaign hired someone based on nepotism (I bet).
Sorry, I've lost track - who do you mean by "we", exactly? I presume it's not the Royal "we", or referring to humanity as a whole, ... perhaps a nation state or other economic-cultural grouping of some kind? I only ask because for some posters, it's not always easy to tell which one might be meant. And in this case, "interfering with overseas democratic processes" is quite the popular pastime, so doesn't really narrow things down.
whom did we use to interfere with democratic processes abroad since 1993
The CIA, MI6, KGB/FSB, Mossad[1], whatever-the-German-one-is-called..
[1] Amusingly, Mossad's original title indicated that their role was to help smuggle Jews into what was then the British Mandate of Palestine in defiance of the British rules prohibiting them. Their role seems to have somewhat changed.
...whom did we use to interfere with democratic processes abroad since 1993.
I'm enjoying the delicious irony of a foreign country interfering in US elections.
As we USAians have been doing in various third world countries since WWII.
Turnabout, I think, is fair play. At least there haven't been any unfortunate deaths of opposition candidates.
I'm enjoying the delicious irony of a foreign country interfering in US elections.
SUCCESSFULLY. WITH WRITTEN RECORD. AND PROOF. AND SLIDEWARE WHICH OWNS TO IT. AND PROVEN CONNECTION TO A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT GOING BACK SOLID 25 YEARS
Damn. Karma is a bitch ain't it. Pity it is impossible to get popcorn any more. All suppliers are out of stock - everyone is ordering it using Caterpillar and Belaz mining trucks.
Unnecessary distraction.
Can we have all the files on their mutual and close relationship with HMG on behalf of their parent company since 1993. The ones that have been shipping in crates from their premises while the DPA is pretending that it will search them.
Anything else aside I would like to have a list of destinations where I should start avoiding using my British passport and switch to back ups instead. Nothing personal, I just do not fancy getting lynched after the next leak.
Among the main responsibilities listed in the ad [...] are to "provide advice and guidance on data protection legislation" and "support the response to any data protection related queries from within the business".
The "responsibility" they don't list is: Define mechanisms to circumvent data protection measures taken by our targets."
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