How Your Personal Information is Obtained and Exploited to Manipulate Your Emotions, Your Actions, and Your Vote

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 21, 2018, 5 p.m. (180 minutes).

Your habits, hobbies, friends, family, location (today, and for the past 17 years), activities, deepest thoughts, and desires are known, indexed, and analyzed. Dataveillance is now all-encompassing and the "small window into your soul" is now a barn door. Attack vectors now include photos, video, audio, self-installed wiretaps (i.e., Alexa) and an always-on ever-present tracking device (your cell phone). Drink a certain type of cola? You're 20 percent more likely to believe in space aliens. Enjoy chunky peanut butter and own a cat? You're significantly more likely to buy a Volkswagen. Live in a certain zip code? Subscribe to a certain magazine? Use a certain email domain? Drink a certain kind of alcoholic beverage? Order certain combinations of pizza toppings? Drive a certain color car? Visit certain noteworthy (for profilers) locations? Data about these otherwise innocuous choices are now routinely merged and extrapolated into deep understanding of your personal characteristics and political beliefs, and are used to target you with information tailored to influence your emotions, actions, purchases and, especially, your vote. This will be the HOPE talk Steven always wanted to give. It will amaze, disturb, and frighten - and it will be Steven's last talk at any HOPE conference (he'll explain that, too). Deprogramming available.


Presenters:

  • Steven Rambam
    **Steven Rambam** (@stevenrambam) is the founder and CEO of Pallorium, Inc. (pallorium.com), a licensed investigative agency with offices and affiliates worldwide. Since 1981, Pallorium’s investigators have successfully closed more than 10,000 cases, ranging from homicide and death claim investigations to missing persons cases to the investigation of various types of sophisticated financial frauds. Steven is also education chairman of the Fraternal Order of Investigators, co-coordinator of the 2018 Investigators’ Superconference (2018investigators.com), and a TV and radio show host. So, like Allan Pinkerton, Steven never sleeps.

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