Information & Ethics committee  Let me be clear. First of all, if you read through the documentation that was sent to Dominic Cummings, nothing in there is illegal, and nothing in there is necessarily comparable to, for example, Cambridge Analytica. There was no proposal to misappropriate data. If you collect

Information & Ethics committee  I worked for the office of the Leader of the Opposition, and my role in the time frame you mentioned was to look at ways of using information technologies to better engage and communicate with constituents and manage constituent information.

Information & Ethics committee  That is news to me. If that happened, I never heard about it. I don't believe that's true.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know who this Liberal insider is, so it's hard for me to comment on what exactly they're referring to. When I worked with the opposition leader's office, the project was primarily infrastructural. At the time, the opposition caucus did not have a coherent constituency c

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That's what you call the database of record, or the DBOR. The idea of a DBOR is to create what you would call a “single citizen view” or a “single customer view”. The more information you have from different contacts about a person, the more you are able to accurately inf

Information & Ethics committee  It depends on the definition of “most personal”. I guess it's relative to what each person considers most personal. To give you some examples of things I think most people would consider highly personal: religious views, sexual orientation, even the fact that the wider datasets

Information & Ethics committee  When I was there, the primary focus after the Mercers and Steve Bannon took over was for political purposes. I know there was planning to do commercial projects, and I believe the company subsequently did perform commercial work for various companies. To be clear, I didn't work s

Information & Ethics committee  A custom audience is what Facebook would call a list of particular people who have been identified externally to create your target universe. Essentially there are a few ways to target on Facebook. One is using Facebook's own targeting applications, for example, picking differe

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I, Christopher Wylie, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare the taking of any oath is according to my religious belief unlawful; and I do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare that the evidence that I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, t

Information & Ethics committee  No. I'm happy to take questions.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Does your question have to do with Cambridge Analytica precisely, or are you talking also about SCL Group?

Information & Ethics committee  I was the director of research. I started my engagement in July 2013 with SCL Group, and I completed that engagement around the end of October or November 2014.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. To my understanding, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I did not work on the Trump campaign, so I cannot speak specifically to what specific data was used or not used on the Trump campaign. What I can say is that the foundational modelling and data assets of Cambridge Analytica were derived from the Kogan dataset that you're referrin