Data Protection

(asked on 23rd March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to investigate the allegations of data theft by (a) Cambridge Analytica, (b) Strategic Communications Laboratories, (c) Global Science Research, (d) Facebook and (e) Aleksandr Kogan.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 28th March 2018

The Secretary of State for the Home Department is not responsible for investigating data protection breaches. This is a matter for the Information Commissioner as the regulator. On 19 March, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport indicated that the Information Commissioner is looking at whether Facebook data was acquired and used illegally.

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