So let's be clear: @ICOnews began a formal investigation into "#DataAnalytics for #PoliticalPurposes" in May 2017:
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putting out an "update" in July 2018:
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and a report to Parliament in November 2018:
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putting out an "update" in July 2018:
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and a report to Parliament in November 2018:
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And in January 2019, @ICOnews was still 'chasing' the (now insolvent) SCL Elections Ltd, i.e. Cambridge Analytica, for failure to respond to an enforcement notice on a DSAR:
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while clearly stating that its 'investigation' was still ongoing:
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while clearly stating that its 'investigation' was still ongoing:
Through 2019, @ICOnews handed out a few more related fines 👇 & even managed to get @facebook to cough up... £500k:
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It consulted (briefly) & "reminded" political parties to behave in #GeneralElection2019:
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But has pretty much...
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It consulted (briefly) & "reminded" political parties to behave in #GeneralElection2019:
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
But has pretty much...
...said nothing since then; there's certainly nothing on the 'investigation' page:
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nor on its official feed:
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
So why are we hearing that there'll be no final report?!
Is that true, @ICOnews? If not, when can we expect to see...
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nor on its official feed:
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
So why are we hearing that there'll be no final report?!
Is that true, @ICOnews? If not, when can we expect to see...
...it published? And if it is true, please explain why we won't.
Oh, while you're at it, and regardless of the report, please publish a full breakdown of what this 3 YEAR ''investigation' with no final report cost the British public.
Regulators have to be #accountable too!
Oh, while you're at it, and regardless of the report, please publish a full breakdown of what this 3 YEAR ''investigation' with no final report cost the British public.
Regulators have to be #accountable too!
Here is @ICOnews confirming to @EmmaLBriant that the investigation into SCL/CA has "concluded", with no intention to publish any further report "into this matter":
But that does not speak to the *wider* 'investigation' that clearly continued AFTER...
But that does not speak to the *wider* 'investigation' that clearly continued AFTER...
...@ICOnews' last legal action against SCL/CA.
Has the *entire* 'investigation' into "#DataAnalytics for #PoliticalPurposes" been dropped? (It wasn't just about SCL/CA, after all...)
Will @CommonsDCMS be demanding answers? And will the #ICO not even notionally 'finish the job'?
Has the *entire* 'investigation' into "#DataAnalytics for #PoliticalPurposes" been dropped? (It wasn't just about SCL/CA, after all...)
Will @CommonsDCMS be demanding answers? And will the #ICO not even notionally 'finish the job'?
..."at the discretion of the Commissioner" is hardly a sufficient excuse for not publishing a full account of this "completed" investigation - especially one still so clearly in the #PublicInterest.
While we've come to expect little from @ICOnews, this sets the bar to a new low!
While we've come to expect little from @ICOnews, this sets the bar to a new low!
