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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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So...the biggest data protection investigation EVER reports tomorrow. ICO's groundbreaking work on use of data in political campaigning, including the referendum. Cambridge Analytica. AIQ. @arron_banks' Eldon Insurance. All the greats & a whole load more I expect. 🔥🔥🔥
Catch up on background here. This was from when the interim report was published in July & we found out Cambridge Analytica's servers had been accessed from Russia. Denham had just returned from US where she was helping the FBI with their inquiries....
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j…
And we reported this back in April. @arron_banks was so furious about this article that we got a stiff letter from the lawyers who've now sacked him. But we know ICO was looking at data crossovers between Banks' insurance business & his political work..
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
But - klaxon! - have you ever taken out insurance on *anything*? Well then @arron_banks probably knows where you live...he had a whole file on me & I've never had anything to do with any of his insurance businesses....
theguardian.com/technology/201…
And...will we get to the bottom of the riddle inside an enigma that is AIQ? The Cambridge Analytica associate that Dom Cummings tracked to an optician's shop on an island off the west coast of Canada & which ended up at heart of 4 Brexit campaigns?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
And last but not least...Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has already been sanctioned & received maximum penalty for its part in the scandal. But what about CA? Remember this impacts 230 million US citizens (including @profcarroll) whose data processed in UK
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Thoughts? Predictions? @profcarroll @podehaye @RaviNa1k @jason_kint @martinjemoore @EmmaLBriant @ProfessorShaw @chrisinsilico?
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Meet Victoria Woodcock. She was Vote Leave's operations director. She was also the admin for a shared drive that clearly showed BeLeave & Vote Leave were illicitly co-ordinating. Cummings' name was deleted from this drive after investigations began.
Here we go. Cold, hard evidence. Deleted by someone featured in this drama. It looks like obstruction of justice. It smells like obstruction of justice. And all those people up on screen have refused to answer questions about it...
"Where are we at, Parky?" First reference to Stephen Parkinson. Political secretary to @theresa_may. Special friend of @ShahmirUK. Used number 10 press office to smear & discredit him. Hasn't answered a single question. Close to certain BBC journalists.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
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I've seen C4's Brexit: An Uncivil War...& it's a brilliant, compelling drama. James Graham, the writer, captures the campaign's dark toxic heart & Cumberbatch delivers a stand-out performance. But it also whitewashes the deeply serious criminal offences we know were committed..
It's on tonight at 9pm & it's a must-watch. But @ObserverUK & many others (@DamianCollins @chrisinsilico @shahmiruk @AdamRamsay @PeterKGeoghegan @maryftz @JolyonMaugham @EmmaLBriant @Channel4News @brexitsham @tomwatson @peterjukes) are still struggling to try & expose the truth..
.@mrJamesGraham, the writer, hopes it will start a national conversation. I hope so too. Which is why I - & others - will be trying to livetweet the issues it raises, and offences it obscures, in real time...
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Nice try, Tony, but that's bollocks
And @MattGarrahan, Tony Hall has now put @ft into an embarrassing position because you accepted his word and repeated it as fact which it's not so you'll need to add a clarification to this.
This is why it matters, Tony Hall. @afneil's casual misogyny opened a door for others. It gave them permission to abuse me & other women and a language to do it in. The BBC by failing to act implicitly endorsed it. And now, with this erroneous statement you've compounded it again
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In his blog, Mr Cummings says AIQ "once built some software" for Cambridge Analytica's parent company SCL, in 2014, but suggestions the company shared data with Cambridge Analytica were "ludicrous". bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Leave . EU's co-founder Arron Banks said: "Leave . EU did not receive any data or work from Cambridge Analytica. "UKIP did give Cambridge Analytica some of its data and Cambridge Analytica did some analysis of this.
"But it was not used in the Brexit campaign. Cambridge Analytica tried to make me pay for that work but I refused. It had nothing to do with us."
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CLEAN THREAD: The connection between Cambridge Analytica/SCL/AIQ, Oakes, Nix, Bannon, Mercer & crew and cryptocurrency. HINT: All roads lead to Russia. [My previous thread added research in real time and became confusing, so I am cleaning it up for clarity.]
2/ 2 years ago, Cambridge Analytica planned to release it's own cryptocurrency ICO. An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is similar to corporations doing an IPO on the stock exchange. Essentially, it's a method of crowdsourcing funds, often as start up capital.
3/ An ICO allows investors to buy "tokens".
✔️These tokens are exchanged later for fiat currencies or other cryptocurrencies.
✔️An ICO allows crypto ventures to avoid regulations that come from bank funding.
✔️ICOs are rife for scams and fraud.
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Bannon “Trump is a blunt instrument.” [Vanity Fair: vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/b… ]
@chrisinsilico testimony: “you do not make money in the electoral work, you make money in the influence brokering after the fact.” Pg 8 data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
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🇬🇧BREXIT🇬🇧

THREAD: Cambridge Analytica appears to have used a Canadian company, AggregateIQ #AIQ, to cheat UK election laws to steal the #Brexit vote‼️ 1/

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Vote Leave was the *official* #Brexit campaign, run by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.🤔

Right before the election, Vote Leave donated a total of £675,315 in 4 donations over 8 days to BeLeave, a political org set up by two 21-something yo’s who worked for Vote Leave.🤨 2/
Quick digression on UK campaign finance law before adding to the story.🤓

The SPENDING limit for Vote Leave (official campaign group) was £7m. Separate campaigns (such as BeLeave) could spend up to £700,000 each, but CANNOT coordinate or “work together”.🤨 3/
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
FB 2018: "We learned a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us…by passing data from an app…using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government… military work around the globe." FB knew in 2015
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Oh the geezers are hard at it grafting media, it's always great to have easy scapegoats "North Korean cyber gangs.." a.msn.com/01/en-ie/AAt9g…
2/"Mr Murphy’s firm was the first in the world to liaise with computer giant IBM over the use of the super-computer ‘Watson’ for real-time--
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