DCMS Committee Request Further Facebook Details on Cambridge Analytica Investigation

Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Damian Collins MP has written to Facebook VP for global affairs and communications Sir Nick Clegg about discrepancies relating to the Cambridge Analytica investigation.

Collins asked the former Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrats leader, who joined Facebook in October 2018, about who at Facebook knew what and when about Cambridge Analytica’s activities on the platform with the “this is your digital life” app, which lead to the misuse of 87 million people’s data.

Claiming that “senior executives from Facebook, including its Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Lord Richard Allan, consistently asserted in evidence over the course of 2018 to the Committee that Facebook first learned that Global Science Research (GSR) and Cambridge Analytica had compromised Facebook user data from a Guardian article published in December 2015,” the SEC said its complaint states that Facebook employees already knew about Cambridge Analytica prior December 2015.

“We therefore request a response on whether the SEC complaint is accurate that employees did raise concerns about Cambridge Analytica before December 2015 and how these discrepancies in evidence have occurred,” Collins letter stated.

Also, despite the red flags raised by Facebook employees about Cambridge Analytica from as early as September 2015, these incidents were not reported to senior management. In a letter to the Committee dated May 14 2018, Rebecca Stimson, Facebook’s UK head of public policy, confirmed that “Mr. Zuckerber ..

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