Evidence of meeting #113 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was know.
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11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I described that particular issue earlier in detail to Mr. Erskine-Smith and in my opening statement. While they existed for a period of time, they were never used. I thought I explained that fully.
11 a.m.
Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal Nathaniel Erskine-Smith
We are out of time for your portion, Mr. Angus, and we are actually at the end of the second round.
We have more time. I know that certain members don't have questions and I know that Mr. Saini and Mr. Picard do. I don't think we'll have the full five minutes per person, but two or three questions each should be sufficient.
11 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Mr. Silvester, I want to pick up on my colleague's point.
You have admitted that you have created spoofing caller ID numbers, haven't you?
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We created a tool with a program called Twilio, which allows you to register a phone number for a campaign, for example, or for a central office, so that when people call, that's what shows up. All of those people had to be registered with the campaign in order to do that.
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
The phone-from-home program is being used in an American campaign in the U.S.
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
It's an American campaign for the U.S. Senate.
11 a.m.
Liberal
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
For that particular program, there's a mobile app, and it's being used by one of our clients to provide it in turn to another client, but both are in the U.S.
11 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
I also understand that recently Facebook has suspended a number of your apps, after apparently banning you from the platform. Do you have any other apps running under the AIQ name on Facebook?
11 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
You have none that you've developed for any other client, nothing?
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
If we made something a long time ago and it happens to be running but we're not using it, I don't know, but any of the things that we've been actively working with in any way with Facebook have been stopped.
11 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
The final question is this. What is the Breitbart Orion project, or what was your role in the project?
11 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We created this tool—our internal development name was Orion—and it was for SCL. SCL had sold it to one of their clients to use. It's a reporting tool for Facebook pages. They wanted to do a pitch to Breitbart, so they asked us to make a custom version for them to do that pitch to Breitbart. They did the pitch, but Breitbart didn't move ahead with that relationship, so that was the end of that.