The whistleblower at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica storm asks whether Britain will now address the tough issues which it has raisedIn January,I told the British authorities that the app that was used to harvest data for Cambridge Analytica was likely to occupy pulled the profiles of British Facebook users. Last week Facebook confirmed it: it told the world that as many as 87 million profiles were collected. This included more than one million British records.
A couple of days later, early on Saturday, and Facebook took another dramatic action: it suspended AggregateIQ. This is important because AIQ was the Canadian data firm on which Vote Leave spent 40% of its budget during the EU referendum. But as I told parliament,I helped set up AIQ to support Cambridge Analytica. I also handed over documents showing AIQs ties to Cambridge Analytica.
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Source: guardian.co.uk