Facebook data scandal: Amid UK probe, Cambridge Analytica audit put on hold

Cambridge Analytica was required to destroy the information in 2015 when Facebook learned it had the data, but reportedly failed to do so

A digital forensic firm enlisted by Facebook Inc. to investigate Cambridge Analytica has put its audit on hold, pending a separate probe by the UK government.
 
Facebook had said earlier that it enlisted the firm Stroz Friedberg to assess advertising-data provider Cambridge Analytica, whose handling of Facebook user data has embroiled the social networking company in controversy.
 
“At the request of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which has announced it is pursuing a warrant to conduct its own on-site investigation, the Stroz Friedberg auditors stood down,” Facebook said Monday.
 
At issue is information on millions of Facebook