Britain's Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and

[MelissaB]

Britain's Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize servers

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Information Commissioner tells C4News she’s applying for warrant to go into Cambridge Analytica

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And Information Commissioner’s office is already investigating 30 different organisations as part of inquiry into data analytics.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. Why would she announce it, thereby giving them time to wipe the servers?

Perhaps that's a requirement under British law?

[blake2012]

3. Or shes in on it and wants to get them a head start before she looks like

She’s doing her job

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Let's hope not.

[blake2012]

11. Another option is that by announcing it, it the CAnfolks try to cover their tracks

They cannot process they had no idea their “routine maintenance” and server wipe would be a problem.

[OnDoutside]

10. Unfortunately not, she has very weak powers, and only 10 staff assigned to it. A joke.

[OnDoutside]

6. Yes it's a ridiculous requirement...."light touch regulation"

[hlthe2b]

8. My thoughts exactly

[C_U_L8R]

13. They'll need to wipe the backups and the cloud

as well as their clients' servers and their employee's private accounts and machines...
even then, there are ways to 'undelete'.

[leftstreet]

2. Why announce you're planning to seek a warrant?

That seems counter intuitive

[blake2012]

4. See post 3

[leftstreet]

5. Yeah, makes you wonder n/t

[bronxiteforever]

9. CA server is their goldmine

If they destroy it there goes all their blackmail unless they go to Russia. I think this is a LE tactic to see where they are going to dump their data.

[MaryMagdaline]

12. Nice to have allies ... something Trump cannot take from us (yet)

[TubbersUK]

14. The Information Officer is stepping things up - trying to get in tonight to head off FB

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