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?

Brittany Kaiser

Data is the most valuable asset in the world.

Brittany Kaiser

If we want protection, we need to start thinking of our data as our property, because, if no one has noticed, property is held up and protected legally.

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser

In order to create predictive algorithms, you need to have a training set. So, that training set is created through our quantitative surveys. Those surveys need to include either basic market research questions or basic political polling questions, which might be added to get your opinion on a brand or an issue or a candidate.

Brittany Kaiser

If you are interacting with anything on your phone or your computer, it is specifically designed to collect as much data about you as possible, so that that can then be monetized.

Brittany Kaiser

The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica. It started when I was on the Obama campaign in 2007-2008. We invented social media strategy.

Brittany Kaiser

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

Brittany Kaiser

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

Brittany Kaiser

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

Brittany Kaiser

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Brittany Kaiser

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser

I think of myself as intelligent and strong and principled.

Brittany Kaiser

Imagine if Facebook's users received a universal basic income every day. This isn't going to be easy because it means that inherently their business model is going to take a little bit of a pay cut.

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser

I'm so tired of making excuses for old white men.

Brittany Kaiser

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?

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser

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.

Brittany Kaiser