I think this is a cool, and a bit frightening use of cloud/A.I.. Of course, as misja111 mentioned, the CV should reliably play well in HR groups that use the same analytics, and that is where it gets a bit frightening. I would hate to be saddled with someone who has gamed the system with an optimized CV/Resume that was easily green-lit through analytics, but I would hope that some manual filtering is still in place. Then again, it isn't like lying on a CV/Resume is a NEW thing...

How is it different from a candidate who is related to the CEO etc.? If anything (at least in software) for now it would indicate a highly capable and inventive candidate.

It annoys me that the headlines keep claiming the election was hacked. The election was fine. The DNC was mined and information found was released. This MAY have been in an effort to sway opinion in an election, which, at best, would be scatter-shot social engineering. But the election was not hacked. At least, not that I've seen reports of.

I think they are using it in the social hacking sense.

Social hacking describes the act of attempting to manipulate outcomes of social behaviour through orchestrated actions. The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission.