A British Exalted Court judge has granted an application by the country’s data protection watchdog for a be answerable for to search Cambridge Analytica’s London offices, the Information Commissioner’s Shtick indulgence (ICO) said on Friday.
“We are pleased with the decision of the judge, and we plan to consummate the warrant shortly,” an ICO spokesman said.
Elizabeth Denham, head of ICO, invited a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica’s office after a whistleblower revealed it had collected the private information of millions of Facebook users to support Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential race.