The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
– ‘Not done yet’ –
Professor Carroll told AFP that he felt only partially vindicated by the verdict.
“It’s another step in the way. We are not done yet,” he said in a telephone interview from New York.
“The quest is complete when I get all my data.”
Presiding judge Kenneth Grant agreed to look into the specifics of Carroll’s data request — but not the wider issue of Cambridge Analytica releasing all the information it had.
Carroll said the biggest revelation from Wednesday’s hearing was that the ICO had obtained the passwords to Cambridge Analytica’s servers that the company had initially tried not to disclose.
He said this could lead to the eventual release of the data as well as a more thorough review of digital privacy rules in both Britain and the United States.
“I think the story is not over,” the US professor said.
The court heard that Cambridge Analytica’s guilty plea was coordinated with ICO representatives over the course of the past weeks.
It marked a last-minute change of strategy by administrators who inherited the case from the company’s executives.
Cambridge Analytica pleaded not guilty in an initial hearing on October 3.
The ICO called the admission and Wednesday’s sentence “a warning that there are consequences for ignoring the law”.
“Wherever you live in the world, if your data is being processed by a UK company, UK data protection laws apply,” the UK regulator said in a statement released to
