{"id":3009,"date":"2018-03-30T18:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=d3e7e2ce5551e587e732c50e090771be"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T22:59:41","slug":"b-c-green-party-says-member-data-safe-after-contract-with-aggregateiq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/b-c-green-party-says-member-data-safe-after-contract-with-aggregateiq\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Green Party says member data safe after contract with AggregateIQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; The B.C. Green Party says it does not believe its members&#8217; personal information was stolen, after the party worked with a Victoria-based tech company that&#8217;s mired in an international privacy scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Laura Lavin says the Greens contracted AggregateIQ between January and August 2016 to create a new voter database.<\/p>\n<p>She says the party has received written confirmation from AggregateIQ that it destroyed any data it collected from the Greens at the end of its contract.<\/p>\n<p>The company faces accusations that it played a role in influencing Britain&#8217;s vote to leave the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian whistleblower Christopher Wylie has also alleged that AggregateIQ used algorithms developed by Cambridge Analytica, a company he says improperly harvested personal data from more than 50-million Facebook users to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its website this week, AggregateIQ denies any connection to Cambridge Analytica and says it works in full compliance with the jurisdictions where it operates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &mdash; The B.C. Green Party says it does not believe its members&rsquo; personal information was stolen, after the party worked with a Victoria-based tech company that&rsquo;s mired in an international privacy scandal. Executive director Laura Lavin says the Greens contracted AggregateIQ between January and August 2016 to create a new voter database. She says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}