LONDON: British regulators on Friday began searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the scandal-hit communications firm at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, shortly after a judge approved a search warrant. Britain’s High Court granted the raid request less than an hour earlier, as Denham investigates claims that Cambridge Analytica may have illegally harvested Facebook data for political ends. British regulators on Friday, March 23, 2018, began searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the scandal-hit communications firm at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, shortly after a judge approved a search warrant. “I’m being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica,” he said in interviews Wednesday. “We were assured by Cambridge Analytica that everything was perfectly legal and within the terms of service” of Facebook, he added.

Source: New Strait Times March 24, 2018 00:00 UTC