In a potentially ground-breaking move, a British data watchdog has ordered Cambridge Analytica to turn over all the information it collected on an American voter, including any personal data from Facebook. If the order by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office isn’t shot down on appeal, it could open the way for court action in Britain by as many as 240 million Facebook users whose personal data was also believed to be collected by Cambridge Analytica. The firm announced Wednesday it’s declaring bankruptcy and shutting down operations, but the U.K. information commissioner warned that ignoring the order would be considered a “criminal offense,” The Guardian reported. Parsons School of Design associate professor David Carroll brought his case to the Information Commissioner’s Office under Britain’s data protection act after he found out that data had been gathered on him. “This should solve a lot of mysteries about what the company did with data and where it got it from,” he told The Guardian.

Source: Huffington Post May 06, 2018 03:45 UTC