It appears the U.K. is all over Cambridge Analytica now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Getting search warrants:

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s data protection authority plans to seek a warrant to search the offices on Tuesday of London-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told Channel 4 News on Monday.

Then there is this lil gem:

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

1. Awesome!

K&R

[marylandblue]

2. Britain has a data protection authority?

Can we have one of those? Pretty please?

[sunonmars]

3. and the punishments are a lot.

[Squinch]

16. Maybe it'll ruin the Mercers (who are founding funders of CA)

[calimary]

23. From your keyboard to Gods monitor!

[Takket]

22. nope. we only protect people's guns. their data is up for grabs.

[marylandblue]

24. What if put data about my gun on facebook?

would it then be protected, or at least confuse the data miners?

[Takket]

25. i'll leave that to the philosophers to debate lol

[syringis]

42. Hi Marylandblue

Yes, they do, as all countries of EU.

Here, data, private life, personal information are really protected. A new Regulation will become applicable in late mai 2018. It will replace the current one (started in 2001).

The new one reinforce the protection.

A link to the European Data Protection Authority :

https://edps.europa.eu/edps-homepage_en

[Me.]

4. WooHoo

[TubbersUK]

5. FB has now been thrown out of the Cambridge Analytica offices

Link to tweet

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. FB was in the actual offices????

Pretty damn bold.
but, good for our side. Another conspiracy warrant to add to the pile.
Wonder if there is a possibility of Facebook getting serious penalties for this.

*Trump kills everything he touches* strikes again.

[TubbersUK]

8. Yes.

The UK authorities had move in quickly with a warrant.

[central scrutinizer]

6. Drumpf has spent the last couple weeks pissing off the Brits.

Well played, doofus. I'm sure they'll reciprocate.

[Delmette2.0]

9. LMAO.

45 will probably rant that they are so mean to him.

[grantcart]

15. aka "Fun fact number 5"

[octoberlib]

10. Wyden released a letter today. He wants Zuckerberg to appear before the Senate

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-cambridge-analytica-to-facebook.pdf

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. thanks for link

[Amaryllis]

31. Wuden has been all over this since before the election. He is brilliant and dogged, and expert

at asking questions that give journalists clues for things that he is unable to talk about openly, and questions that dig a deeper hole for the one being questioned.

[orangecrush]

11. Put the Mercers

in the Tower!

[Thunderbeast]

12. EXACTLY!

[Kurt V.]

13. and the entry is clearly marked

Great one !

[orangecrush]

14. Thanks!

[erronis]

17. Well at least they'll get the royal treatment. Dump can't even come visit.

And now dump probably won't want to leave the US where the repugs can protect him.

Anyone know if Scotland would honor an arrest warrant if he wanted to visit a windy golf course up thataway?

[orangecrush]

19. Tell Trump he's getting the royal carriage ride

and don't tell him where he's going till he's in the tower.

[Hekate]

33. My first thought: French tumbrils were also a royal carriage ride

[Pepsidog]

28. Jail the bastards

[cp]

18. Hurray!

[blugbox]

40. Or in this case...

Huzzah!

[Chakaconcarne]

20. Maddow tonight!!!!

[Mc Mike]

21. Deport the Mercers, to Long Kesh. rec, nt

[annabanana]

38. Wouldn't sully the memory of Bobby Sands. . . .n/t

[Mc Mike]

41. What's the British phrase for "Marion Control Unit"? nt

[triron]

26. Maybe the Brits will come to our rescue.

[Justice]

29. I've been saying this - cannot understand how CA can operate in UK with strict data protection laws.

Professor from US suing CA will help expose it further.

[Puzzler]

30. Welcome to MI5/M16 land ...

They have a few scores to settle with Trump and his mob.

Good luck shutting them down. You’ll need it



-Puzzler

[YessirAtsaFact]

32. This certainly makes it harder to call Rooskiegate a hoax

I’ve read that a Russian oil company under sanctions paid 4.5 million to CA for data on people in Ohio, that the data was provided to Russian intelligence and that a Russian with ties to the Kremlin provided an app to scrape Facebook data.

I don’t have links, but I’m pretty sure the Russians haven’t destroyed Google yet.

[triron]

34. Of course it enhances the case for collusion an order of magnitude

[triron]

35. The EU will be joining them

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-us.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fba709cf2-2b67-11e8-9b4b-bc4b9f08f381?source=next&fit=scale-down&width=608

[enid602]

36. data protection authority

Does the US Government even have a 'data protection authority?'

[triron]

37. knr

[JCMach1]

39. They were very proud of their work here in the USA too- Project Alamo

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Donald-Trump-has-a-Project-Alamo-here-in-San-10417170.php

...Bloomberg reports the research team in San Antonio, which spends $100,000 on surveys weekly, along with Trump's national campaign effort, are targeting three voter groups: women, white liberals and African Americans.

"We have three major voter suppression operations under way," a senior official with the campaign told Businessweek...

In San Antonio, campaign staffers are working on suppression tactics as well, campaign officials told Bloomberg.

One staffer made an animation of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, saying African Americans are "super predators." The animation will be published on Facebook in "dark posts" that allow "only the people we want to see it, see it," a campaign official told Businessweek.

"It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out," a campaign official told Businessweek.

Note, this article was from BEFORE THE ELECTION... They weren't bothering to even hide it...