Cambridge Analytica Owner Pleads Guilty to Violating U.K. Data Laws

SCL Elections will be fined 15,000 pounds in case involving U.S. professor

The parent company of the now shuttered data firm Cambridge Analytica has been fined 15,000 pounds after pleading guilty to violating UK data laws.

According to The Guardian, SCL Elections pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection Act after it didn’t comply with a U.S. professor’s request for information about the data the company had collected on him.

The professor, David Carroll, an American citizen and professor at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, has spent more than a year requesting a copy of his data from the firm, which had been at the center of the ongoing debate over online privacy before going into administration—the British equivalent of bankruptcy court—in May 2018.

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