The UK Information Commissioner 's office ( ICO ) has searched the premises of website Analytica , less than an hour after being granted a High Court warrant . ICO commissioner Elizabeth ##son wanted to determine whether personal data from Facebook users was " accessed in an unauthorised way " , if there was enough consent to do so and what Facebook 's response had been to the subsequent data loss . Cambridge Analytica 's acting commissioner , Alexander Tayler , said the firm had been in touch with the ICO since February 2008 and was " committed to helping the investigation " .
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has searched the premises of Cambridge Analytica, less than an hour after being granted a High Court warrant. ICO commissioner Elizabeth Denham wanted to know whether personal data from Facebook users was "acquired in an unauthorised way", if there was enough consent to do so and what Facebook's response had been to the subsequent data loss. Cambridge Analytica's acting CEO, Alexander Tayler, said the firm had been in touch with the ICO since February 2017 and was "committed to helping the investigation".