US professor taking on Cambridge Analytica in the UK courts
Edward Helmore in New York
Tue 20 Mar 2018 13.28 EDT
Last modified on Tue 20 Mar 2018 19.59 EDT
An American professor who is using UK law to try to reclaim data that may be held by Cambridge Analytica has told the Guardian he is encouraged that regulatory pressures on both sides of the Atlantic could force companies to be more transparent about their handling of personal information.
Last week, David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, filed a statement in the high court in London in support of a claim to recover his data and reveal its source, citing Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections Ltd, described as its parent company.
Carroll said he was “extremely pleased that the attorney general of Massachusetts is taking this up, and I’m also encouraged that Damian Collins MP is calling <Cambridge Analytica CEO> Alexander Nix back to parliament to clarify his misleading statements and inviting Mark Zuckerberg as well as whistleblower Christopher Wylie in to give evidence” ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/david-carroll-cambridge-analytica-uk-courts-us-professor
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