A UK parliamentary committee has used ancient legal powers to seize internal Facebook papers as part of its investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to a report in the Observer.
What happened? Damian Collins, the chair of the select committeee on culture, media, and sport, invoked Parliament’s summoning rights to force Ted Kramer, founder of the US software firm Six4Three, to release the documents. A security representative was sent to his hotel with a two-hour deadline to give the papers up. When Kramer failed to do so, he was escorted to Parliament and handed the documents over.
What do they include? They’re believed to contain details on Facebook’s data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, such as e-mails between senior executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They could help provide information on the decisions made before the breach on how user data was handled.
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