Cambridge Analytica pleads guilty, faces the first in a probable series of criminal convictions

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/09/guilty-guilty-guilty.html

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[Mister_Eppy]

c;mon man. I just got over my last round of forgetting that image existed.

Hopefully these prosecutions yield better results than any action to come out of Panama papers.

[KathyPartdeux]

If ever there were a case to be made for piercing the corporate veil…

[Papasan]

[GagHalfrunt]

@doctorow

The UK Information Commission has seized Cambridge Analytica’s computers and 700TB of data. SCL/Cambridge Analytica had refused to provide the decryption keys to the data, but their former employees have now done so.

@doctorow

The court was told Wednesday that Cambridge Analytica and its related companies had not provided the relevant passwords to the ICO to access that data, but the administrators had now done so.

“Administrators” here means those appointed to manage the insolvent company (not sysadmins).

Administration (law)

[gracchus]

I hope this yields some toothsome tidbits for Mueller as well.

[anon76551318]

The UK gets $26000 and we get Trump.

[Boundegar]

The guys who matter never stand trial. I assume they have some disposable mooks to take the fall. As for bankrupting the company, what are the odds some crooked politician has a million ready to go for version 2.0?

[GagHalfrunt]

The insolvent company itself is a disposable mook.

[RickMycroft]

I wish there was more info on the US/Mercer side of the company. Was it only political operators like Bannon, or did they have a parallel technical side with people and unseized computers?