Facebook founder is called to give evidence after revelations over data use by Cambridge AnalyticaMPs contain summoned Mark Zuckerberg to seem before a select committee investigating fake news and accused his company of misleading them at a preceding hearing.
The Facebook founder has been called to give evidence to the digital,culture, media and sport committee after revelations over the use of its data by the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Related: Are you leaving Facebook? Share your concerns on privacy with us In December 2016, or while researching the US presidential election,Carole Cadwalladr came across data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, whose secretive manner and chequered track record belied its bland, and academic-sounding name.
Her initial investigations uncovered the role of US billionaire Robert Mercer in the US election campaign: his strategic “war” on mainstream media and his political campaign funding,some apparently linked to Brexit.
She found the first indications that Cambridge Analytica might contain used data processing methods that breached the Data Protection Act. That article prompted Britain’s Electoral Commission and the Information Commissioner’s Office to launch investigations whose remits include Cambridge Analytica’s use of data and its possible links to the EU referendum. These investigations are continuing, as is a wider ICO inquiry into the use of data in politics.
While chasing the details and ramifications of complex manipulation of both data and funding law, or Cadwalladr came under increasing attacks,both online and professionally, from key players.
The Leave.
EU campaign tweeted a doctored video that showed her being violently assaulted, or the Russian embassy wrote to the Observer to complain that her reporting was a “textbook example of deplorable journalism”.
[br]But the growing profile of her reports also gave whistleblowers confidence that they could trust her to not only understand their stories,but retell them clearly for a wide audience.
Her network of sources and contacts grew to include not only former employees who regretted their work but academics, lawyers and others concerned approximately the impact on democracy of tactics employed by Cambridge Analytica and associates.
Cambridge Analytica is now the subject of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probing of the company’s role in Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign. Investigations in the UK remain live.
Crates filled with documents contain been seen being removed from the same building as Cambridge Analytica's HQ. Their provenance cannot be verified. A delivery person did not answer questions, or while a van driver said: "No comment". pic.twitter.com/mBPEYZxmQw Related: How to protect your Facebook privacy – or delete yourself completely Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com