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Conservatives, NDP say they’ve never accessed Facebook profiles to microtarget voters, Liberals point to privacy policy
By Laura Ryckewaert, Jolson Lim, Peter Mazereeuw Mar 26, 2018
The Cambridge Analytica data breach was an 'I told you so moment' for one expert, who cast warnings about data-driven politics back to 2012.
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie was interviewed on CNN on March 19, 2018. Screenshot photograph
Conservatives and New Democrats say they have never collected private information on Canadians without their permission, or asked to access their Facebook pages to gather information to microtarget voters, while the governing Liberals say they follow a privacy policy and don’t have access to any Facebook accounts beyond their own.
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