More than a dozen investigators from the Information Commissioner’s Office entered the company’s central London office late Friday, shortly after a High Court judge granted a warrant. Both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook deny wrongdoing. The footage also showed Nix saying Cambridge Analytica played a major role in securing Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “The company believed that the data had been obtained in line with Facebook’s terms of service and data protection laws,” Tayler said. His statement said the data was deleted in 2015 at Facebook’s request, and denied that any of the Facebook data that Cambridge Analytica obtained was used in the work it did on the 2016 U.S. election.

Source: National Post March 24, 2018 10:30 UTC