Dan Boucher: How to control Facebook’s use of our data

Social media providers should be required to present UK consumers with an ongoing, highly visible, simple, unavoidable choice over its use.

There’s a serious discussion to have about data and electoral law, but it is yet to take place.

Our democracy is poorly served by widespread ignorance about campaign technology, and the fact glamorous alarmism wins more headlines than grubby reality.

How should our electoral law change to work in the digital age?

From ‘fake news’ to micro-targeting, crowd-funding to data rights, we explore the key areas of focus for an overdue review of the rules of our democracy.

Daniel Stafford: The GDPR chaos is a reminder of how taking back control will allow us to make better laws

A well-intentioned but badly designed EU law is irritating consumers and making life far harder for charities and businesses. After Brexit we will be able to fix it.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn evades Worboys and Brexit as well as anti-semitism

He is the laziest and most self-indulgent Leader of the Opposition in living memory.

Robert Halfon: In defence of populism

It’s time for us to acknowledge that it is a response to our own failures – and to listen to voters who are opting for it.

LISTEN: Wallace and McGregor on the importance and pitfalls of data-driven political campaigning

ConservativeHome’s Executive Editor and Barack Obama’s former digital guru discuss the ethics and practicalities of targeted campaigning, on the Week in Westminster.

To Diehard Remainers. You lost. Get over it. Drop the conspiracy theories – and stop assuming Leave voters are thick.

Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.

J P Floru: People only moan about the use of Facebook data when it is used by campaigns they dislike

If Hillary and Remain had won, using the same methods, would anyone at the Guardian or the BBC have cared a bean about Cambridge Analytica’s behaviour?

There must be a middle-ground between taking data-driven campaigning for granted and wild alarmism about its dangers

Given that most people don’t really understand what it is or how it works, it’s a field ripe for under- or over-reaction. Or, indeed, both at the same time.

Isabel Oakeshott: Brexit campaigners don’t know friend from enemy

Vote Leave and leave.eu need to join together to fight the pro-EU campaign – and not each other.