Facebook users try data grab as Cambridge Analytica evaporates

A Cambridge Analytica symbol is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone against a backdrop of the Facebook Inc. sign shown on a computer screen in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Facebook Inc.’s co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has been called to appear before a House panel as fallout continues from revelations that Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built a election-consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg

Facebook users who say their personal data was misused, potentially to distort the last US election, will find out whether they can squeeze more information out of a quickly evaporating company that played a role: Cambridge Analytica. 

The political consulting firm is winding down both in the UK, its home country, and in a New York Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. Some of the dozens of Facebook users who sued it and Facebook in district court this year as “data breach plaintiffs” to ask a US bankruptcy judge if they can gather more information about Cambridge Analytica’s finances.