British politician: Cambridge Analytica-linked Facebook data possibly accessed from Russia

Source: The Hill | July 17, 2018 | John Bowden

Personal Facebook data gathered without users’ knowledge by Cambridge Analytica prior to the 2016 election was possibly accessed from Russia and other countries, a member of British Parliament said Tuesday.

Damian Collins, a Conservative MP leading an investigation into Cambridge Analytica’s activities, told CNN that the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had discovered that some of the systems linked to the investigation had been accessed by IP addresses linked to several countries, including Russia.

“I think what we want to know now is who were those people and what access did they have, and were they actually able to take some of that data themselves and use it for whatever things they wanted,” Collins said.

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