UK data regulator tells Cambridge Analytica to hand over user’s data, or else

The UK’s data regulator is not letting Cambridge Analytica get off scot-free. 

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has waded into the next chapter of the unrelenting Cambridge Analytica drama. This time, the ICO has served the firm’s affiliate company with a legal notice ordering it to hand over all the data it holds on one U.S.-based voter. 

London-based SCL Elections Ltd has been given 30 days to comply with a “subject access request” submitted by Professor David Carroll, a media design professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City, “under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.” If SCL doesn’t cooperate with this request, it’ll find itself in deep trouble. “Failure to do so is a criminal offence, punishable in the courts by an unlimited fine,” reads a statement on the ICO website.  Read more…

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