Canadian Privacy Commissioner just posted report on AIQ (company involved in Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data scandals, Brexit and US elections). start with final paragraphs which state why Facebook needs to immediately ban microtargeting of political ads like Google has. 
Basically says they didn’t properly use data for microtargeting in elections including US and Brexit. Timely report except for the dump ahead of thanksgiving. cc @donie
Report says their data was derived in part from the data which Facebook knew had been improperly harvested and sold then tried to cover up until it shook the world with global reporting by NYT and Guardian last March 2018.
Very clearly reports on AIQ’s use of Facebook’s custom audience matching and lookalike tools which are critical to election ads microtargeting and @CommonsCMS @DamianCollins @IanCLucas @JoStevensLabour studied and expressed concerns.
Google wasn’t likely used according to report. All Facebook, all the time. All sorts of data violations in this harvesting and management of data. Political ads + social media microtargeting are toxic without laws fit for purpose.
“We respectfully disagree” are regulator words for you’re nuts. Suggesting Facebook is no different than any other communications tool. Lol. Not materially different than email. 😂
Anyway, full report here. Have at it. @carolecadwalla @podehaye @profcarroll oipc.bc.ca/investigation-…
