05-04-2018 18:21 via telecoms.com

ICO broadens data privacy investigation to 30 organizations

The ICO has announced it is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, to understand how personal data and analytics can impact political campaigning and influence elections.
Following the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the ICO was sharp out of the blocks to kick-start an investigation in how personal data has been used in an unethical or potentially illegal manner. While we are usually quite critical about the sluggishness of the public sector, the ICO defied logic by securing a
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