Information commissioner’s investigation to go further than current exploration of practices used in EU referendumGeneral election 2017 – latest updatesThe information commissioner has launched an investigation into the way UK political parties target voters through social media with a warning that whether they send political messages to people based on their individual data,they could be breaking the law.
The investigation “into the expend of data analytics for political purposes” was announced by Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, and will go further than the watchdogs current activity of exploring practices deployed during the European Union referendum campaign. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com