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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:15 PM Mar 2018

Top British privacy watchdog granted warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's offices

Source: The Hill

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/23/18 04:07 PM EDT

The U.K.'s top privacy watchdog was granted a warrant by a judge Friday to search the offices of Cambridge Analytica after news reports revealed the firm obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent or knowledge.

The Information Commissioner’s Office tweeted Friday that officials were "pleased" to be granted the warrant to investigate Cambridge Analytica's dealings.

Link to tweet

The ICO, headed by an information commissioner appointed by the British Crown, has the power to levy fines against companies that misuse customers' personal data and information, among other authorities.

In 2013, the office levied a fine of €250,000 against tech giant Sony after the company was the target of a data breach that exposed names, payment information and other personal information of Sony Playstation users. The ICO found that Sony had obtained an improper amount of data from customers, and had not secured its systems properly.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/380006-top-british-privacy-watchdog-granted-warrant-to-search-cambridge-analyticas

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Top British privacy watchdog granted warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's offices (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP

Shredders are jamming and hard drives are on the pyre. lagomorph777 Mar 2018 #1

CA has had 2 or 3 days warning of this warrant! TheDebbieDee Mar 2018 #2

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition neohippie Mar 2018 #3

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

1. Shredders are jamming and hard drives are on the pyre.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:17 PM

Mar 2018

I hope they hurry!

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)

2. CA has had 2 or 3 days warning of this warrant!

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:26 PM

Mar 2018

There shouldn't be anything/evidence for Scotland Yard to find...

neohippie

(1,142 posts)

3. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:32 PM

Mar 2018

Well, our only hope after giving CA 4 days warning about the raid is that the CA whistle blower has documentation of his claims.

But this story was interesting, it appears that Kogan the researcher who apparently used the unauthorized data from Facebook that has been discussed in the stories about that has worked on other projects with Facebook staff that involved much larger data sets.

It was revealed in a Washington Post story today that he worked on a project with Facebook that used data on 57 billion Facebook friendships.

That's discussed here https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142021828

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