Information & Ethics committee  Good morning. It is a pleasure to be appearing before you. I am grateful for the opportunity. I believe the matter before us is one of very great importance. Facebook is certainly one of the core elements involved, but I would urge all of you to keep an eye towards the very foc

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I have one final point. There is also a cryptocurrency token aspect to this. Exactly one comment within the GitLab commentary section was marked with flag that later I noticed was a confidential flag. That comment had to do with the Midas token. I looked into it. The Midas

Information & Ethics committee  It's highly likely that this has occurred. I have the tools. I don't have the ingredients that those tools mixed with, because that would have involved taking the additional step of going into databases and such. From what I see, there's no reason to have these tools in this way,

Information & Ethics committee  The most personal information specific to the voter data breaches or just generally?

Information & Ethics committee  The most detailed message you have sent to a loved one through any chat app could very easily be logged, archived, tied to your name.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, but let me clarify. There is a separate Facebook-related incident that has not been reported at all yet—I'm working with a journalist right now to bring it to everyone's attention—that is not involved with Cambridge Analytica, as far as I know, but the number is 48 million p

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. In their documentation, Aggregate IQ go into detail about their system. It starts with being bootstrapped by the RNC's Data Trust data vault, which is the Republican National Committee here in the United States. I had actually found the Data Trust database before it was part

Information & Ethics committee  Well, one example that is very appropriate, because it illustrates both the original discovery and the whole nature of this relationship, is an employee named Ali Yassine. I usually try not to name people, but I feel that it's important for you to know this for the purposes of lo

Information & Ethics committee  I have been asked that, and my answer would be, yes, I would. However, I need to explain that in my work, I draw a line of classification between a malicious breach and a non-malicious breach. I would classify this as not necessarily a malicious breach, but it was a violation of

Information & Ethics committee  What I can say on this is that there were not invoices, receipts, or things of that nature included in the GitLab repository that I downloaded. Exact smoking-gun receipts and pieces of paper saying “we paid this much to this person”—that's not present. However, I can clarify my c

Information & Ethics committee  The possibility is there. I want to emphasize that I have no current reason to believe that any money laundering has occurred, but I think it is worth looking into.

Information & Ethics committee  Which one? We've put out four now.

Information & Ethics committee  That's the most recent one regarding Canadian politics and such. That report confirmed the names that are present. It doesn't necessarily mean that because a candidate's name appears in a project that AggregateIQ was working on.... It doesn't mean that candidate was necessarily d

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the incentives to spread around data by people who are profiting from it are great. Giving in a little bit is not only a slippery slope; it is a foregone conclusion that it will happen to a wide degree, and it's just a matter of time before political parties and commerc

Information & Ethics committee  I have both a positive answer to that and a negative answer to that. I'll start with the negative. There is no way to guarantee that any bit of data, any string of characters you submit or that are identified with you, will not be propagated down the line to another company. Dat