She found the first indications that Cambridge Analytica might have used data processing methods that breached the Data Protection Act. Her network of sources and contacts grew to include not only former employees who regretted their work but academics, lawyers and others concerned about the impact on democracy of tactics employed by Cambridge Analytica and associates. Cambridge Analytica is now the subject of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probing of the company’s role in Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign. David Carroll, a US design professor who is challenging Cambridge Analytica through the UK courts to access his data profile harvested from Facebook, called the reforms “inadequate”. Facebook was literally racing towards building tools that opened their users’ data to marketing partners and new business verticals.

Source: The Guardian March 21, 2018 20:01 UTC