The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered the data analysis and services company Cambridge Analytica to release all personal data it has collected on a US academic.
The ICO served SCL Elections, which is acting as the data controller for Cambridge Analytica, with a legal notice on 4 May telling it to hand over all the data it had collected on David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Carroll had submitted a request for the data to Cambridge Analytica in January 2017. He received a spreadsheet from SCL Group on behalf of Cambridge Analytica in March 2017, which was said to contain all of the personal data to which he was legally entitled.
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