{"id":11017,"date":"2018-03-19T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:08:05","slug":"cambridge-analytica-warrant-sought-to-inspect-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/03\/19\/cambridge-analytica-warrant-sought-to-inspect-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The UK&#8217;s Information Commissioner says she will seek a warrant to look at the databases and servers used by British firm Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>The company is accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Its executives have also been filmed by Channel 4 News suggesting it could use honey traps and potentially bribery to discredit politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The company denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/embed\/p061p7bd\/43465700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Monday,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 4 News<\/a>\u00a0broadcast hidden camera footage in which Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix appears to suggest tactics his company could use to discredit politicians online.<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, asked what &#8220;deep digging&#8221; could be done, Mr Nix told an undercover reporter: &#8220;Oh, we do a lot more than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He suggested one way to target an individual was to &#8220;offer them a deal that&#8217;s too good to be true and make sure that&#8217;s video recorded&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he could &#8220;send some girls around to the candidate&#8217;s house&#8230;&#8221; adding that Ukrainian girls &#8220;are very beautiful, I find that works very well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nix continued: &#8220;I&#8217;m just giving you examples of what can be done and what has been done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Channel 4 News said its reporter had posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get a political candidate elected in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cambridge Analytica said the report had &#8220;grossly misrepresented&#8221; the conversations caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In playing along with this line of conversation, and partly to spare our &#8216;client&#8217; from embarrassment, we entertained a series of ludicrous hypothetical scenarios,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called &#8216;honeytraps&#8217;,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nix told the BBC&#8217;s Newsnight programme that he regarded the report as a &#8220;misrepresentation of the facts&#8221; and said he felt the firm had been &#8220;deliberately entrapped&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is already investigating Cambridge Analytica over claims it used the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wylie, who worked with the company, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people through a personality quiz on Facebook that was created by an academic.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Denham had demanded access to Cambridge Analytica&#8217;s databases and servers by 18:00 GMT but said the firm had missed her deadline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not accepting their response so therefore I&#8217;ll be applying to the court for a warrant,&#8221; she told Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to get in there, we need to look at the databases, we need to look at the servers and understand how data was processed or deleted by Cambridge Analytica.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">&#8216;Violation&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Cambridge Analytica insists it followed the correct procedures in obtaining and using data,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-43440043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but it was suspended from Facebook last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook, meanwhile, said it had hired its own digital forensic team to audit Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is part of a comprehensive internal and external review that we are conducting to determine the accuracy of the claims that the Facebook data in question still exists,&#8221; the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook&#8217;s policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook added that Aleksandr Kogan, the creator of the personality app from which the data had been harvested, had also agreed to be audited.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said Mr Wylie &#8211; who made the claims about the way the data was gathered and used &#8211; had declined.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-43465700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The UK&#8217;s Information Commissioner says she will seek a warrant to look at the databases and servers used by British firm Cambridge Analytica. 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