UK playing central role in Facebook data misuse probe

Data protection is a hot issue and all about increasing confidence in the way data is handled, says UK privacy watchdog. The world is at a “critically important moment” for data protection, according to UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham. “It has been a rather busy few weeks at our office,” she told the closing session of the CyberUK 2018 conference in Manchester. “The UK is playing a central role in a very public investigation of the allegations of data misuse by Cambridge Analytica involving Facebook user profiles of 87 million people across the globe, and allegations of the misuse of personal data in our elections.”