Well, we'll look at the hundred thousand type A personalities, and then we'll have a look at the corresponding data points that we have on those hundred thousand people. We'll have a look at what attributes they have in common and then we'll build a model based on that.

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Of course, the answer to this question should have been 'yes,'.

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It's not only deeply embarrassing, but it's something I regret enormously.

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The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights - so be it.

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Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

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every-day looking new day

The company started in the early 90s or late 80s. We were a behavioural science company. We didn't pivot into data analytics till 2012. So, all the data that we collected pre-2012, which was done by the British company SBL group, was collected through quantitive and qualitative research on the ground.

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group late research science

There's no question that the marketing and advertising world is ahead of the political marketing the political communications world.

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ahead advertising political world

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

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Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

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We didn't do Brexit. We didn't get money for it. We didn't do work for it. We didn't sign a contract.

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brexit get money work

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

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many orphan failure success

I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.

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We never worked in Russia. We never worked for Russia. I want to be careful, but I don't think we have any Russian employees in our company whatsoever. We just don't have business in Russia. We have no involvement with Russia, never have done.

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employees never think business

I'm not going to speak about any of our investors or board members at all because we don't.

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We leave our personal ideologies at the door... We only work for mainstream political parties.

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door leave political work

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

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everything things internet data

We steer clear of fringe political parties or minority groups. We're not trying to orchestrate a revolution.

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You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

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As a British person, I am unable to give strategic advice to political campaigns in the U.S.

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We use nearly 5 thousand different data points about you to craft and target a message. The data points are not just a representative model of you. The data points are about you, specifically.

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you target data different

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

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fundamentally agnostic organization