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💥 Emerdata, set up last year to acquire and rebrand Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group, had raised $19 million from investors in January, but former chief executive Alexander Nix allegedly withdrew more than $8 million before CA/SCL collapsed
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Emerdata investors are in a stand-off with Alexander Nix after he allegedly withdrew more than $8m and are pressing him to repay the money. One person added that Mr Nix said the withdrawal was made in exchange for unbooked services.
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Documents seen by FT set out plans to raise about $30m to pitch for commercially-related work & described using govt data on citizens & foreign nationals to "identify, segment and target key audiences for campaigns of information or influence.”
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The first story that revealed Emerdata and its directors, including Johnson Chun Shun Ko, Erik Prince's business partner in Frontier Services Group, as well as Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer
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Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections are still operating. I have files strongly indicating this from 6 days ago.
Gov't investigations would be wise to get preservation notices out to AWS Ireland for anything interacting with ca-eng[.]io, auth[.]ca-eng[.]io, vault[.]ca-eng[.]io
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#cambridgeanalytica #scl #sclelections #russia #trumprussia #brexit #WarBeingWagedOnDemocracy @FBI @OurCommons @MarkWarner @SenWhitehouse @SenFeinstein @DCMS @ICOnews @DamianCollins
And for everyone digging for nuggets of truth (gov't or otherwise), look into https://clear[.]ai
The hydra has sprouted another head.
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What happened at Cambridge Analytica was not an accident. It was deliberate and exploitative:
Facebook’s 2017 Privacy Audit did not catch Cambridge Analytica: wired.com/story/facebook…

UK Parliament wants Zuck to answer at least 39 questions under oath:

What exactly does Zuckerberg mean when he says users own our own data?
“2.2 billion people who use Facebook would love to cash a check from the company, but the sad truth is that this is nothing but a pipe dream. It suggests that this isn't Facebook's problem to solve, it's yours, and that doesn't sound like a fair deal.”

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I’m hearing Bannon lied at the FT conference. I have many reciepts that show Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group are tightly intertwined down to our data. Plus Nix told Parliament data is shareable between the entities.
Note Bannon’s Kremlin-style “whattaboutism” deflection but he’s wrong: Facebook’s Custom Audiences and Lookalikes features were not available during Obama campaigns. Bannon’s Project Alamo was all about uploading voter files into Facebook.
variety.com/2018/biz/news/…
Trying to get my hands on the transcript of Bannon at #FTFutureNews conference so I can scrutinize his comments about #CambridgeAnalytica and #SCL
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
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Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, for stealing user data wapo.st/2phRGOQ
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