Last sentence: “Ms Denham said the data had been accessed from countries including Russia.” 👀
“The ICO was astounded by the amount of personal data stored by political parties.” (They’ve been conducting forensics on hundreds of terabytes from servers seized under criminal warrant.)
Jan-Mar 2017 filed Subject Access Request with SCL (Cambridge Analytica)
July 4, 2017 filed complaint with ICO
May 5, 2018 ICO issues enforcement order to SCL (Cambridge Analytica)
June 4, 2018 SCL fails to comply
July 11, 2018 ICO issues report announcing criminal prosecution
My lawyer @RaviNa1k to @issielapowsky on the news that @ICOnews is proceeding with criminal prosecution for failing to comply with enforcement order to fully disclose my voter profile data set as required by UK law. wired.com/story/uk-regul…
Highlights of the #ICOReport are available. I’m hearing the full interim report should be available soon. ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
OK folks. Here’s the complete interim #ICOReport. Let’s dig in. ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
The interim #ICOReport investigation team has not yet completed the forensics to establish provenance and lineage of the data sources and models. Still fact-finding on scope and scale of ‘contamination’ ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Thanks to all of you who have been following this data quest from the beginning. Your support has been essential in getting us here.
This #ICOReport is a huge wake-up call for academia worldwide. The #CambridgeAnalytica cataclysm sits at the intersections between ethics, research, and commercial politics. ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Important to note how both Facebook and AggregateIQ attempted jurisdictionally evasive maneuvers with the cop on the data crimes beat. #ICOReport #CambridgeAnalytica
Worth noting that this #ICOReport is essentially non-partisan given that a Remain campaign UK DPA violation may have been snagged in the dragnet.
OK folks now dig into the second #ICOReport released today “Democracy disrupted? Personal information and political influence”
ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
“We are at risk of developing a system of voter surveillance by default” #ICOReport ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Social media as a means to bypass the legacy infrastructure (and its guardrails and norms) to manage “marginal gains” — sound familiar?
The ICO asked all UK parties with seats in the House of Commons to document their data practices. Only UKIP refused and the dispute went to the tribunal where it was dismissed, its appeal decried as “inaccurate” ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Seems important. #ICOReport
tl:dr; ok here are the graphics #ICOReport
Wow. ICO basically saying once your data is attached to your voter registration then predictions are considered fair game for full disclosure. This is a big win for us.🥂
Keep hammering on Facebook Custom Audiences. It’s where the rubber hits the road. We still don’t know extent of tainted data being uploaded to Facebook Custom Audiences, as data models get forensically deconstructed.
Ah look at this. @NationBuilder is due to provide information to @ICOnews #ICOReport
Seems to me that Facebook failed to build any means to detect abuse of Custom Audiences. It’s a reckless feature and if Zuck had any integrity, he’d order a moratorium on it, for ethics review at minimum. #ICOReport
Remember that Cambridge Analytica (SCL Elections Ltd) bought data from at least Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup. So pretargeted enriched matched voter files up uploaded into Facebook for another round of data matching PII to data brokers? techcrunch.com/2018/06/06/cam…
OK we’re getting to the part where Facebook gets eviscerated for its dark patterned privacy “controls” and genuine faux transparency
ICO calls for an “ethical pause” (shortly after commanding Facebook to stand-down to issue a criminal warrant to seize servers.) Will this industry respect their regulator’s urgent call for a moratorium recognizing the new threat models of digital campaigns?
So what is my initial response to #ICOReport?
SEE, I TOLD YOU.
ICYMI that fateful day in March 2017 when I tweeted my Cambridge Analytica data request in a consequential thread. Now it’s been officially recognized as an inadequate response. Criminal prosecution is up next.
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