Carole Cadwalladr
A study yesteryear the digital, culture, media in addition to sport choose commission demands to a greater extent than mesh regulation
The study offers a wide-ranging, informed in addition to sustained critique that carries amongst it the amount weight of parliament. The verdict is withering: Facebook failed. It “obfuscated”, refused to investigate how its platform was abused yesteryear the Russian authorities until forced yesteryear line per unit of measurement area from Senate committees and, inwards the most damning section, it aided in addition to abetted the incitement of racial hatred inwards Burma, noting that fifty-fifty the company’s primary technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, called this “awful”.
• “Clear legal liability” for tech companies “to human activity against harmful in addition to illegal content” amongst failure to human activity resulting inwards criminal proceedings.
• Full auditing in addition to scrutiny of tech companies, including their safety mechanisms, in addition to amount algorithm auditing. Strengthen the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Impose a levy on tech companies operating inwards the U.K. to pay for it. The Competition in addition to Markets Authority should investigate imitation profiles in addition to advertising fraud.
• H5N1 ban on micro-targeted political advertising to like audiences.
• H5N1 “new category of tech company” to endure formulated which “tightens tech companies’ liabilities in addition to which is non necessarily either a ‘platform’ or ‘publisher’”.
• Sweeping novel powers for the Electoral Commission in addition to a comprehensive overhaul of existing legislation that governs political advertisements during elections.
• H5N1 farther demand for Mark Zuckerberg “to come upward to the commission to respond questions to which Facebook has non responded adequately to date”.
• H5N1 code of ethics that all tech companies volition handgrip to uphold.
Cambridge Analytica
It was the Cambridge Analytica scandal that blew opened upward the committee’s research inwards March, though it had already been a focus of its investigations. At its hearing inwards Washington inwards February, it had asked a serial of pointed questions of Simon Milner, a Facebook executive, whose answers the study describes equally “disingenuous”.
The study includes:
• “Disturbing evidence” of operate overseas that it urges the National Crime Agency (NCA) to investigate, including allegations it worked amongst Black Cube, an Israeli intelligence theater “whose operate allegedly included illegal hacking”.
• New allegations of an undercover sting carried out yesteryear a “temporary SCL [parent companionship of Cambridge Analytica] employee” who was paid £10,000 yesteryear Alexander Nix to bribe a pol inwards St Kitts inwards the Caribbean.
• Details most Cambridge Analytica’s human relationship amongst Henley & Partners, a passport investment companionship that has programmes inwards St Kitts in addition to Malta. The commission too noted that Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist, who was murdered inwards Oct concluding year, was investigating the company, highlighted the harm that these passport sales were inflicting on both Republic of Malta in addition to the European Union. The study urges the NCA to investigate SCL’s operate amongst Henley & Partners. It too notes Lord Ashcroft had of late extolled the virtues of Republic of Malta equally the “best goal for ambitious U.K. firms” to get got a post-Brexit presence inwards the UK.
• “Really worrying” prove that SCL too worked for the U.K. government, had provided psychological performance grooming for Ministry of Defence staff, had received classified information most Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan and, according to Nix’s testimony, had “secret clearance”. The study urges the authorities to ensure the NCA investigates.
• Concerns most “the administrator’s proposals inwards connectedness amongst SCL Elections Ltd, equally listed inwards Companies House, in addition to the fact that Emerdata Ltd is listed equally the ultimate parent companionship of SCL Elections Ltd, in addition to is the major creditor in addition to owed £6.3m”. Recommends the NCA investigates.
Russia
DCMS commission chair Damian Collins told the Observer that when it starting fourth dimension started asking questions most Russia, it really rapidly led to questions most interference inwards British elections, including the European Union referendum. “And nosotros noticed an aggressive motility against us fifty-fifty asking these questions. It underlined the demand to persist, which nosotros get got done.”
He said that the commission believed the prove it had received thence far from Facebook represented entirely the “tip of the iceberg”.
The study includes:
• H5N1 telephone outcry upward for a amount investigation into contacts betwixt Arron Banks – millionaire backer of Leave.EU – in addition to Russian officials in addition to his trouble organisation dealings amongst Russian companies. “We empathize the National Crime Agency is investigating these matters. We believe that they should endure given amount access to whatever relevant information that volition assistance their inquiry.”
• H5N1 telephone outcry upward for a amount investigation into the rootage of Banks’s donations to the plebiscite “to verify that the coin was non sourced from abroad”. It notes that “should in that place endure whatever doubt, the thing should endure referred to the NCA”.
• H5N1 proposal for limits inwards hereafter elections on private donors in addition to for major donors to “demonstrate the rootage of their donations”.
• H5N1 demand for farther investigation yesteryear Facebook of Russian interference on its platform. Facebook’s denial of “direct Russian interference using Facebook inwards the Brexit referendum” was “disingenuous in addition to typical of Facebook’s treatment of our questions”.
• Calls for a amount ICO study on Aleksandr Kogan, the Russian-born scientist who was working inwards Russian Federation amongst grants from the Russian authorities spell harvesting Facebook information for Cambridge Analytica.
• H5N1 asking for to a greater extent than information most the ICO’s disceptation that Cambridge Analytica’s systems had been “accessed from IP addresses that resolve to Russian Federation in addition to other areas of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States]”.
• H5N1 disceptation from the British authorities on “how many investigations are currently beingness carried out into Russian interference inwards U.K. politics”. It says: “It would endure incorrect for Robert Mueller’s research to accept the Pb most related issues inwards the UK.” It calls for coordination betwixt all relevant authorities.
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