Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company

Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica was taped by covert columnists for Channel 4 News 

The UK's Information Commissioner says she will look for a warrant to take a gander at the databases and servers utilized by British firm Cambridge Analytica. 

The organization is blamed for utilizing the individual information of 50 million Facebook individuals to impact the US presidential race in 2016. 

Its officials have additionally been shot by Channel 4 News recommending it could utilize nectar traps and possibly renumeration to dishonor lawmakers. 

The organization denies any bad behavior. 

On Monday, Channel 4 News communicate concealed camera film in which Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix seems to propose strategies his organization could use to dishonor government officials on the web. 

In the recording, asked what "profound burrowing" should be possible, Mr Nix told a covert columnist: "Goodness, we complete significantly more than that." 

He proposed one approach to focus on an individual was to "offer them an arrangement that is unrealistic and ensure that is video recorded". 

He likewise said he could "send a few young ladies around to the applicant's house..." including that Ukrainian young ladies "are exceptionally excellent, I find that works extremely well". 

Mr Nix proceeded: "I'm simply giving you cases of what should be possible and what has been finished." 

Channel 4 News said its columnist had acted like a fixer for a rich customer planning to get a political competitor chose in Sri Lanka. 

Be that as it may, Cambridge Analytica said the report had "terribly distorted" the discussions got on camera. 

Cambridge Analytica demands it took after the right methodology in getting and utilizing information, yet it was suspended from Facebook a week ago. 

Facebook, in the interim, said it had contracted its own computerized scientific group to review Cambridge Analytica. 

"This is a piece of a far reaching inward and outside survey that we are leading to decide the exactness of the cases that the Facebook information being referred to in any case exists," the firm said. 

"On the off chance that this information still exists, it would be a grave infringement of Facebook's strategies and an inadmissible infringement of trust and the duties these gatherings made." 

Facebook included that Aleksandr Kogan, the maker of the identity application from which the information had been collected, had likewise consented to be examined. 

Be that as it may, it said Mr Wylie - who made the cases about the way the information was accumulated and utilized - had declined.