{"id":2755,"date":"2021-09-08T05:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T05:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:49:56","slug":"study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to \u2018nudge\u2019 behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: national and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media <\/p>\n<p>A new form of \u201cinfluence government\u201d, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been \u201csupercharged\u201d by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned.<\/p>\n<p>National and local governments have turned to targeted advertisements on search engines and social media platforms to try to \u201cnudge\u201d the behaviour of the country at large, the academics found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/08\/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d7e49ab08ed5529107299c0b3649cc247e88e453\/0_145_4368_2622\/master\/4368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9a4325b24d35ff23162cce3c7cd230f9\" title=\"Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to \u2018nudge\u2019 behaviour\" \/>Exclusive: national and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media<br \/>\nA new form of \u201cinfluence government\u201d, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been \u201csupercharged\u201d by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned.<br \/>\nNational and local governments have turned to targeted advertisements on search engines and social media platforms to try to \u201cnudge\u201d the behaviour of the country at large, the academics found. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: national and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media A new form of \u201cinfluence government\u201d, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been \u201csupercharged\u201d by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned. National and local governments have turned to targeted advertisements on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to \u2018nudge\u2019 behaviour<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}