SCL Elections was fined £15,000 by a U.K. court after pleading guilty to breaching the country’s Data Protection Act. The organization did not respond to a U.S. citizen’s request for copies of information it holds on him. “Wherever you live in the world, if your data is being processed by a UK company, UK data protection laws apply,” U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told Reuters. (The Guardian)
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SCL Elections was fined £15,000 by a U.K. court after pleading guilty to breaching the country’s Data Protection Act. The organization did not respond to a U.S. citizen’s request for copies of information it holds on him. “Wherever you live in the world, if your data is being processed by a UK company, UK data protection laws apply,” U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told Reuters. (The Guardian)
Talking point: This is a blow for the scandal-plagued company, which allegedly helped elect Donald Trump. It also shows that U.K. businesses are vulnerable to requests for personal data from people anywhere in the world. Victoria, B.C.-based AggregateIQ, which worked closely with Cambridge Analytica, isn’t vulnerable to this type of request yet. Unless, of course, the government adopts the recommendations of the House ethics committee that want these kinds of laws in Canada.
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