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An investigation into the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data privacy scandal has revealed key findings and confirmed Israeli intelligence involvement in the 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru reports independent investigators, Julian Malins Q. C. and Linda Hudson, contracted to dig into the data privacy scandal, confirmed that Israeli intelligence worked to campaign for former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 elections.
“It is correct that during the 2015 campaign, the SCL team was aware that there was also working for Goodluck Jonathan, entirely separately instructed, an Israeli intelligence gathering company,” Julian Malins Q. C. and Linda Hudson stated in their report.
The Julian Malins Q. C. and Linda Hudson report, however, absorbed Cambridge Analytica of wrongdoing in the elections, stressing that SCL Elections did no work with the Israeli intelligence gathering company.
SCL Elections and its offspring data analytics firm, CA, face allegations of improper involvement in the 2007 and 2015 elections on behalf of their client through a series of unlawful and unethical manoeuvres.
SCL and CA was alleged to have aided in ‘hacking’ or unlawfully gaining access to Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data when he was a candidate in the presidential election and that SCL’s and CA’s work for the election campaign on behalf of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) broke Nigerian electoral law.
It was also alleged that SCL and CA engaged AggregateIQ in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election to produce and publish a video to frighten voters with terrifying images of what would happen if sharia law was imposed by Muhammadu Buhari, if he were to be elected.
“SCL’s contractual involvement in Nigerian elections was to provide advertising, marketing and PR services on behalf of the Goodluck Jonathan campaigns,” the investigators stated in the report.
The report further stated that evidence was not found that SCL broke Nigerian electoral law and that the allegation that Buhari’s personal data was “hacked” is denied by staff at SCL and that nothing specific was found in the way of “hacked” data concerning Buhari, which was published to his detriment.
“As to AggregateIQ, that company, which is Canadian and is entirely separate from SCL and CA, may or may not have supplied the Goodluck Jonathan campaign with videos, whether false and scurrilous or not. But I have seen no evidence to support, the Wylie allegation, that SCL and/or CA had anything to do with this.
“I have to repeat, however, that, given the evidential difficulties described earlier, my conclusions here also have to be of a preliminary, rather than final nature,” the report read.