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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this episode we'll be discussing the Cambridge Analytica scandal

and the role of data in politics, plus Theresa May has finally secured a Brexit transition

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I'm delighted to be joined by our Brussels Bureau Chief Alex Barker, political columnist Philip

Stevens, Innovation Editor John Thornhill, and Deputy Common editor Miranda Green.

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Cambridge Analytical is a little-known company before this week.

Selling data scraping and data analysis from political campaigns is not a new idea, but the

London-based company did just that, albeit for Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign, an

explosive investigation by the observer newspaper and

channel 4 has revealed some of the phone's more questionable practices

raised further questions about Facebook's ethics and again the debate about

data and politics.

Miranda Green, there's been quite a lot of reporting before this week on

it came to Analytica particularly at the observer newspaper about their role in the

leave campaign, their role in the Trump campaign, but we've had some big new

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