Cambridge Analytica: Data Privacy

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:57 pm on 19 March 2018.

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Photo of Stephen Kinnock Stephen Kinnock Labour, Aberavon 4:57, 19 March 2018

Andy Wigmore, who was director of communications for Leave.EU has described the services provided by Cambridge Analytica as “our most potent weapon” in the referendum. They are calculated to be worth in the region of hundreds of thousands of pounds. They were a donation-in-kind, not a penny of which was reported to the Electoral Commission. I wrote to the Electoral Commission about this last year, and I am pleased to say that it has launched an investigation. Does the Secretary of State agree that if it turns out that Cambridge Analytica has been in flagrant breach of our electoral rules, that would place a pretty huge question mark over the referendum result?