Cambridge Analytica is popularly known to influence voters across the world, including US elections of 2016 and UK leave EU referendum, using personal data. It is said Cambridge Analytica had around 5000 attributes of every voter, collected from social media and other private data brokers. Cambridge Analytica used this information to micro-target political advertisements to voters, essentially telling them what they wanted to hear based on their data. The BJP has initiated a missed call campaign to show support to the citizenship amendment bill. Usually these are data collection excercises to know supporters and micro-target them with more dis-information & misinformation. In this episode Shivam Shankar Singh, a Political Analyst and author of “How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t want you to Know" talks in detail about the misuse of data and social media by political parties.

<div>Cambridge Analytica is popularly known to influence voters across the world, including US elections of 2016 and UK leave EU referendum, using personal data. It is said Cambridge Analytica had around 5000 attributes of every voter, collected from social media and other private data brokers. Cambridge Analytica used this information to micro-target political advertisements to voters, essentially telling them what they wanted to hear based on their data. The BJP has initiated a missed call campaign to show support to the citizenship amendment bill. Usually these are data collection excercises to know supporters and micro-target them with more dis-information &amp; misinformation. In this episode Shivam Shankar Singh, a Political Analyst and author of “How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t want you to Know" talks in detail about the misuse of data and social media by political parties.</div>

The second season of Cyber Democracy podcast focuses on understanding how technology is a site for gendered politics in India. Through conversations with female and trans-queer grassroots practitioners, the podcast will discuss how our gender and intersectional identities shape our experiences of and engagements with technologies and the Internet.

Show Host: Radhika Radhakrishnan
 (https://twitter.com/so_radhikal)

Season 1

What does Democracy mean in this age of cyber? How does the government benefit from the sale of our data? What is data economy? And does the internet give us the right to be forgotten? These and many more questions will be discussed, debated and answered in Cyber Democracy, a new podcast offering from Suno India.

Show Host: Srinivas Kodali (https://twitter.com/digitaldutta)

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