Information & Ethics committee  It seems unlikely to me.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is a complete fabrication to say that they are not data harvesters. They are very much data harvesters. I guess if you want to play with semantics, you could say that they were hired at points to do data harvesting, but don't consider themselves data harvesters. That does

Information & Ethics committee  It can be avoided. You just have to be extremely careful and use some pre-planning to develop software carefully or have agreements in place that are strictly followed and that are audited after the fact to make sure there wasn't any unauthorized third party access.

Information & Ethics committee  In this situation, it's my belief and understanding that there was a desired outcome and that this software was developed in response to a desired outcome. Some very powerful people wanted to influence others, win elections, and bring people's opinions and behaviours into a certa

Information & Ethics committee  The percentage of people in which nation?

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the influence operation would not necessarily target an entire populace, but a very large percentage of people would be affected by it. That's why companies like SCL have contracts with psychological operations groups in the U.K. They affect a very large percentage of t

Information & Ethics committee  From seeing more than just this data breach and seeing other ones related to elections, I can tell you that figuring out the targets takes place well in advance of the 10 days before an election. Within the final 10 days, apps were developed specifically by AIQ to get people to m

Information & Ethics committee  I believe there are probably still AIQ-influenced if not AIQ-developed apps present on Facebook under different names. I believe that's likely.

Information & Ethics committee  To be very clear, the only connection really was one image file that was right next to another image for an organization called For America. I know that AIQ developed a platform for For America that involved the ability to see various things the Facebook followers were saying and

Information & Ethics committee  Theoretically in the most fantastical of worlds you could build software to handle a dataset you don't have. That's just hypothetical, though. That's not reality. That's not what happens in software development. If you want to develop something quickly, profitably, on time, and t

Information & Ethics committee  In the commentary of the developers writing to each other, they state that they are setting the caller ID differently from the truth, because if they call somebody it gives them the ability to have the person calling back on that number be routed to a different line. That could e

Information & Ethics committee  Chris Wilson is the head of WPA Intelligence, formerly known as WPA Opinion Research. The WP is Wilson Perkins, I believe, and he's the “W” in WPA. They worked very closely with AggregateIQ, from what I can tell from the GitLab files. I believe if you spoke with WPA they would

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Wilson replied on that tweet string, actually, and claimed that the Russian and Turkish involvements were 20 years ago. I personally just recently found out about the Russia and Turkey involvements in his past, so I can't confirm or deny his 20 years ago claim. I know he is c

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, Ripon is only one of the projects. However, Ripon was an early project, and I believe that many of the projects that are present on the hard drive I gave you, for example, have grown out of Ripon and sort of evolved into little ecosystems of their own. One of the the

Information & Ethics committee  I believe that is a fair statement. I believe one of the running themes we keep running into is that much of the software is reskinned, but the engine is still significantly the same. It is something in new clothing.