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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Last July, I used Moneysupermarket for a car insurance quote. In January I found out they'd passed that personal info to Arron Banks's company. This week, parliament was told he used insurance data to campaign for Brexit. Creepy? Much?
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I'm not a customer of Eldon insurance. I've never used it. Yet this is some of the info Arron Banks has on me - via a price comparison website, Moneysupermarket. What does he have on you? Did he - & @nigel_farage - use it in Brexit?
You know how I found out @Arron_banks had my data? From my car. Here it is. And YES, that is moss.
And this is from the evidence that ex-Cambridge Analytica director, Brittany Kaiser submitted to parliament. A plan to illegally combine Eldon insurance data, Leave.EU data & UKIP data. Except it wasn't "Eldon's data". It was mine. It was yours.
"If there's one thing I've learned reporting the Cambridge Analytica scandal - however weird things look, they can always get weirder." Yep.
It's one thing playing politics. It's another thing playing politics when you run a business where you're entrusted with people's data. Here's Arron breaching the data protection act, right here...
It's illegal to collect data for one purpose and then use it for another. Evidence of potentially illegal acts passed to parliament this week. But the ICO hamstrung by weak, ineffectual laws. How do we get to the bottom of this?? @DamianCollins & @CommonsCMS?
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