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I have filed a legal claim in the UK against Cambridge Analytica/SCL under the Data Protection Act. Thank you to all those who have backed me in this effort. And special thanks to @RaviNa1k
Now that we’ve filed with the court and served the Defendants, pledge your support at crowdjustice.com/case/scl so we can #TakeBackOurVoterData because I need your help to do this.
Thrilled to announce our legal team today with the filing:
Dinah Rose, Q.C. blackstonechambers.com/barristers/din…
Ben Jaffey, Q.C. employeecompetition.co.uk/barristers/ben…
Julianne Kerr Morrison monckton.com/barrister/juli…
Nikolaus Gruebeck monckton.com/barrister/juli…
Ravi Naik, lead solicitor itnsolicitors.com/our-team/partn…
Some initial court docs were posted by @AndyKroll of @MotherJones and we’ll be sharing more of the case bundle soon. #TakeBackOurVoterData documentcloud.org/documents/4413…
Once upon a time, someone actually read Cambridge Analytica’s privacy policy. Someone who actually knew what to look for. The rest is history.
Recently and significantly, the @CommonsCMS investigation hearings led by @DamianCollins have occasioned the Information Commissioner to clarify jurisdiction over American voter profiles in the case of Cambridge Analytica.
I’d like to thank @dgolumbia who submitted his Cambridge Analytica voter profile to our legal team and experts to help make assessments of the adequacy of the data disclosures.
Spoiler: Not adequate.
It’s appalling that House Republicans shuttered the Intel Committee’s work pre-maturely and left so many key questions about Cambridge Analytica unanswered. But thanks to my backers, we are doing our own work to #FollowTheData
It’s all happening. Buckle-up, everyone.
The crazy DR. SPECTRE story (aka Aleksandr Kogan) is all starting to unravel. This is going to be amazing, folks. Can’t make this stuff up. newsroom.fb.com/news/h/suspend…
From March 2017: “30 million Facebook users had their data harvested by Trump campaign affiliate” interc.pt/2mTAwIT by @Schwartzesque
Facebook is trying to get ahead of this narrative. washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/t…
Well that escalated quickly
BOOM! BOOM! nyti.ms/2GB9dK4
Stillwell worked with Kogan (and Kosinski) at University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. He served as an expert in our legal claim in the UK. He decided not to go work with Kogan for SCL.
There is a mountain of evidence. @carolecadwalla, dogged in her pursuit, has the receipts. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
INTERVIEW: Meet Chris Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower on @Channel4News
INTERVIEW: @carolecadwalla speaks with Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower.
And @carolecadwalla’s profile of Christopher Wylie is up
BOOM! STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Attorney General announces investigation.
Dear @MassAGO,
Might want to ask Facebook about Joseph Chancellor.

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Oct 8, 2018
The election of 2016 was a PSYOP. No, really. nyti.ms/2E6xgmD
Cambridge Analytica and Psy Group had a memorandum of understanding, reported in May. wsj.com/articles/israe…
Fact that Cruz’s Cambridge Analytica appears to have sought to team up with Psy Group, which sought to run a social media PSYOP against Cruz is…awkward.
Read 8 tweets
Oct 6, 2018
So many simultaneous Kavanaugh scandals, overloaded the system.
- sexual (how can he deny blackouts?)
- financial (how did he pay off debt?)
- hacking (how can he deny knowing about pilfered docs)
- surveillance (how can he deny his role?)
- perjury (how can he lie about it all?)
- financial scandal: the unexplained mystery of the impossible Kavanaugh family finances is nicely documented and explained here (although I do bristle at how it downplays the sexual scandal; again see above on scandal overload) medium.com/@gregolear/sup…
- hacking and surveillance scandal: this piece by @nycsouthpaw is a twofor in that you get deep coverage on both the surveillance FOIA revelation and the senate hacking scandal context yahoo.com/news/lawsuits-…
Read 4 tweets
Oct 4, 2018
Kavanaugh’s toxicity poisons an already reeling Facebook, enraging employees and flummoxing executives. nyti.ms/2CpoSwI
Facebook’s behavioral microtargeting political ad business unit is a moneymaker. They all shouldn’t be surprised when the chickens they hatched come home to roost.
Joel Kaplan was sitting behind Zuckerberg for his Congressional hearings. That too was a rather perjurious affair. (Zuck remains in contempt of UK parliament committee for failing to appear.)
Read 4 tweets
Oct 3, 2018
Defence entered a Not Guilty plea this morning in Westminster Magistrate Court. Trial is set for January 2019. #CambridgeAnalytica
It’s a criminal act in the UK to defy the Information Commissioner’s specific order to comply with data protection law. This order is from May 2018 and now we can confirm it will go to trial in the UK next year. wired.com/story/uk-regul…
A “defunct” company sure seems willing to spend its allegedly sparse resources going to trial against the data cops for refusing to hand over all the personal data it collected about me. What are they hiding? Will their creditors tolerate this?
Read 5 tweets
Oct 2, 2018
If you’re up for SCOTUS then yeah all your shit is gonna get dredged up. Welcome to the future.
Kavanaugh stands to be the most anti-privacy justice on the bench. His view of the 4th is as warped as his view of the 1st. He’s most likely to rule in favor of a Citizens United-type decision for Silicon Valley, ruling that business surveillance is protected commercial speech.
It’s hard to imagine a future where Kavanaugh is confirmed and we don’t find ourselves, a decade later, in some fucked up dystopia.
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Oct 1, 2018
I suspect one reason this mega-breach isn’t causing a bigger reaction is that it has no name. Usually hacks and breaches are quickly dubbed something catchy which catapults them thru the coverage and watercooler debates.
Cleverest I can come up is #ChuckE in reference to Chuck E Cheese’s where you get tokens for your birthday parties, in reference to how access tokens were hacked thru exploits in birthday video upload tool. But that’s quite a US-centric reference.
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