UK investigating Facebook’s response to alleged data breach


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 20 Mar 2018

The building housing the offices of Cambridge Analytica is seen in central London, Britain, March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

LONDON: Britain is investigating whether Facebook did enough to secure data after reports that a political consultancy hired by Donald Trump improperly accessed information about 50 million Facebook users, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said on March 19.

Denham is seeking a warrant to search the offices of London-based consultancy Cambridge Analytica after a whistleblower revealed it had harvested the private information of millions of people to support Trump's 2016 US presidential campaign.

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