PMO: Federal Government has never engaged Cambridge Analytica

PETALING JAYA: The Government has clarified that it never engaged big data outfit Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL Group in any way.

A statement by the Prime Minister's Office said that contrary to media reports, neither Cambridge Analytica nor its parent company SCL Group has ever – now or in the past – been contracted, employed or paid in any way by Barisan Nasional, the Prime Minister's Office or any part of the Government of Malaysia.