Facebook data row firm suspends boss
the strategy.” In another meeting, Mark Turnbull, managing director of CA Political Global, described how, having obtained damaging material on opponents, the company can discreetly promote it on to the internet.
The revelations came hours after its bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies and “honey traps” to influence elections worldwide.
Cambridge Analytica has been accused of harvesting personal data of 50 million Facebook users. The Commons Managing director Mark Turnbull yesterday Digital and Culture Committee has formally requested that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg appear before its Fake News inquiry.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said Facebook staff present at Cambridge Analytica’s offices had been asked to leave.
She said: “We are seeking a warrant so that, as the regulator, we can go in and get to the bottom, search the servers, do a data audit. We are also looking at Facebook at the same time, so our advice was to back away, let us get in there as a regulator and do our work, and they have agreed.”
Ms Denham added: “There are provisions in the Data Protection Act that require a platform like Facebook to have strong safeguards in place.
“So, we are looking at whether or not there were safeguards, and whether or not Facebook acted appropriately when things went wrong.”