Information & Ethics committee  Because we enjoy clear communication.

Information & Ethics committee  We didn't know what she was aware and not aware of, so we just wanted to make that point.

Information & Ethics committee  At the time of writing, I certainly knew that, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Correct.

Information & Ethics committee  We've not done—

Information & Ethics committee  With the information that has come out now, it looks as though they may have indeed used that Facebook information to come up with their scoring. I don't know that to be the case.

Information & Ethics committee  It appears to be the case.

Information & Ethics committee  It's not one database. The Git repository, though it does have its own database to keep track of what's there, is essentially a file storage location. When those databases were backed up, some of those back-ups were intentional. For example, they were supposed to back up the list of users of a website.

Information & Ethics committee  Some of the information that's in that repository is not information we created, used, or did anything.... If a client had information on their server, and we backed up the code from that server, we may have pulled some of their information inadvertently. That's part of the problem with what happened originally.

Information & Ethics committee  We did ask questions about where it came from, but the information we got was that it was from public data sources, and there are tons of them in the United States. We were unaware they were obtaining information improperly at the time. I don't know that we could have asked more questions.

Information & Ethics committee  What is data harvesting? It would be collecting data from sources, I suppose. It just depends on which context you're speaking of.

Information & Ethics committee  We make sure that all of the ads we run are attached directly to the candidate and to the campaign. If they're publicly espousing something that other people might take issue with, they can take it up particularly with that campaign. To your specific question as to how I would know whether it's misinformation versus just being negative, my response is that sometimes negative advertising is simply pointing out the truth about that person.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe that we've ever done that. It is theoretically possible, except that the different advertising networks also check the landing pages, so if you're directing something to a landing page, I guess the company could ask us to advertise. We could start and, pointing to web paging at the time we began, everything looked fine.

Information & Ethics committee  To your point, Mr. Massingham said he didn't know the entire contents of the Vote Leave drive, so when BeLeave sent us a link, they sent us a link to images and stuff they'd used previously. I just wanted to clarify that one point.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, no. The information that was given to us to do the advertising was certainly initially communicated by Mr. Grimes verbally. The actual direction on the ads did come from Slack. We did have a reporting tool up at the time that allowed BeLeave to see how their ads were doing, and how things were going, but we don't have that anymore.