From BBC:
Eighteen enforcement officers working for the UK's information commissioner are searching the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica.
The High Court granted the data watchdog a warrant amid claims the firm amassed information about millions of people without their consent, based on a 2014 personality quiz on Facebook.
It is part of a wider investigation into political campaigning.
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The ICO applied for the warrant to access to the databases and servers of Cambridge Analytica.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has said she was looking at whether personal data was acquired in "an unauthorised way", whether there was sufficient consent to share the data, what was done to safeguard it and whether Facebook acted robustly when it found out about the loss of the data.
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Separate but related:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...-have-vast-data-for-brexit-vote-a3797441.html
Cambridge Analytica bragged: We have vast data for Brexit vote
The company at the heart of the Facebook scandal boasted of having “vast amounts of data” that could sway the 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union.
A 10-page document written by Cambridge Analytica, headed “Big Data Solutions for the EU Referendum”, claimed it could single out Brexiteers among voters, donors, politicians and even journalists.
MPs today called for a wider investigation into the firm, which has been accused of obtaining 50 million people’s private details harvested from Facebook, amid questions over the role it may have played in the referendum.
The vote was won by Leave by a four-point margin. Cambridge Analytica has denied wrongdoing.
See Also:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-Information-Commissioner-Raids-London-Office
Eighteen enforcement officers working for the UK's information commissioner are searching the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica.
The High Court granted the data watchdog a warrant amid claims the firm amassed information about millions of people without their consent, based on a 2014 personality quiz on Facebook.
It is part of a wider investigation into political campaigning.
................
The ICO applied for the warrant to access to the databases and servers of Cambridge Analytica.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has said she was looking at whether personal data was acquired in "an unauthorised way", whether there was sufficient consent to share the data, what was done to safeguard it and whether Facebook acted robustly when it found out about the loss of the data.
.....................
Separate but related:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...-have-vast-data-for-brexit-vote-a3797441.html
Cambridge Analytica bragged: We have vast data for Brexit vote
The company at the heart of the Facebook scandal boasted of having “vast amounts of data” that could sway the 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union.
A 10-page document written by Cambridge Analytica, headed “Big Data Solutions for the EU Referendum”, claimed it could single out Brexiteers among voters, donors, politicians and even journalists.
MPs today called for a wider investigation into the firm, which has been accused of obtaining 50 million people’s private details harvested from Facebook, amid questions over the role it may have played in the referendum.
The vote was won by Leave by a four-point margin. Cambridge Analytica has denied wrongdoing.
See Also:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-Information-Commissioner-Raids-London-Office
