NY professor sues Cambridge Analytica to find out what it knows about him
Source: CNN
(CNN)A New York professor filed a legal claim against a data company that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign in a British court Friday in a case that could shed light on how millions of American voters were targeted online in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The claim against Cambridge Analytica came the same day that Facebook suspended the company from its platform as the social media site investigates the company's use of data on Americans.
Last year, David Carroll, a professor at the New School's Parsons School of Design, used a British data protection law to ask Cambridge Analytica's branch in the United Kingdom to provide the data it had gathered on him.
Cambridge's file on Carroll included predictions on the importance of various issues to him. On a scale of one to 10, they ranked Carroll's views on issues including gun rights, education, health care, and "traditional social and moral values."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/professor-lawsuit-cambridge-analytica/index.html
British law allows people to file "Subject Access" requests to find out what information companies hold on them, and the law has been ruled to apply to Americans, too, as long as the information is processed in Britain.
So I guess we could all file these requests!
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Mother of all class actions! 
