Dominic Cummings said he “wouldn’t mind if Facebook wanted to take ALL of Vote Leave’s Facebook data” and put “the whole lot on its website available for download by anybody”. He used a lengthy blogpost to explain that while such information is “normally considered very sensitive and never published by campaigns”, he now supported the publication of all the confidential data Facebook holds on Vote Leave. Cummings said he believed publishing the data would invite “serious academic scrutiny” of Vote Leave’s tactics and prove his campaign did not use data gathered improperly by the collapsed internet campaigns group Cambridge Analytica. “We never saw/used/wanted the data improperly acquired by CA,” he said. He rejected a formal summons from Collins’s select committee to give evidence in front of MPs on his campaign’s online activities.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2018 14:00 UTC