Showing posts with label Data Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data Protection. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2018

British data protection agency takes center stage in investigating Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data



Politico:


"LONDON — When Elizabeth Denham became the U.K.’s privacy regulator in 2016, data protection was hardly the hot-button topic it is today.
Fast-forward 18 months, and the world has changed. Denham is now in the eye of a storm over allegations that roughly 50 million Facebook users had personal data harvested without their consent by a British-based researcher connected to Cambridge Analytica, a political research firm with ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign..."