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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Guardian: Invoice shows Cambridge Analytica did do work on Brexit.
Revealed: Leave donor faces data investigation as first documentary evidence of Cambridge Analytica Brexit work uncoveredThe Information Commissioners Office is investigating Leave.EU and its donor Arron Banks over possible breaches of the Data Protection Act.
The ICO has issued information notices against both Leave.EU the referendum campaign headed by Nigel Farage and its director, Banks. The notices requiring organisations to provide the ICO with specified information within a certain time period were issued in the same week as the ICO conducted raids last month on Cambridge Analyticas offices. The notices are both part of Operation Cederburg the commissioners year-long investigation into the use of data in the EU referendum. Failure to comply is a criminal offence.
Banks who was by far the biggest funder of Brexit, providing £8.4m in donations and loans confirmed on Friday that both he personally and Leave.EU had received information notices. In an email on Friday, Banks said they were responding to it He said the ICOs action was not an investigation but an information request.
In a separate development, the Observer has obtained an invoice that Cambridge Analytica issued on 14 December 2015 for £41,500 for work it undertook on behalf of Ukip. The invoice says the payment is for analysis of Ukip membership and survey data and creative product development, and it is issued on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC, the American entity, from its office in Alexandria, Virginia. This is the first documentary evidence that Cambridge Analytica did conduct analytics work on behalf of one of the Leave campaigns in the period before the referendum.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/14/leave-eu-arron-banks-new-question-referendum-funded-brexit-cambridge-analytica?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Guardian: Invoice shows Cambridge Analytica did do work on Brexit. (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2018
OP
I cling to the irrational hope this will turn into a second referendum.
Pope George Ringo II
Apr 2018
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Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)1. I cling to the irrational hope this will turn into a second referendum.
I know. Rest assured, I know. But Brexit is just that horrible an action for that horrible a set of reasons.
Maraya1969
(22,509 posts)2. I hope they take a new vote. That vote was unfair and the majority of people
don't want it.