Crates of documents removed from the same building as Cambridge Analytica's HQ.

[suffragette]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/officials-seek-warrant-to-enter-cambridge-analytica-hq

The UK’s information commissioner has announced her intention to investigate CA, but on Tuesday she was still awaiting a warrant to enter its central London offices. A Huffington Post reporter said he had seen around 10 crates of documents being removed from the building, which is shared with other tenants.



George Bowden
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Crates filled with documents have been seen being removed from the same building as Cambridge Analytica's HQ. Their provenance cannot be verified. A delivery person did not answer questions, while a van driver said: "No comment". pic.twitter.com/mBPEYZxmQw
5:12 AM - Mar 20, 2018

[shraby]

1. I hope someone got the van's license plate numbers.

He knows where they went.

[PdxSean]

2. They went to a commercial shredder.

[suffragette]

5. Hope they can get a warrant soon to stop the removal of evidence. Between this and the

specialist team hired by Facebook, looks like scrubbing is in full cycle mode.

[Ms. Toad]

16. In the US, the moment you expect litigation

you send a preservation of documents letter. If documents are destroyed after that letter, there are legal consequences for acting in bad faith.

I don't know if the UK has similar laws.

[suffragette]

18. Very good point. Would like to know if UK has similar laws or not. Sure seems like they are purging

incriminating info.

[poboy2]

3. photo-

[suffragette]

6. Thanks. I still need to learn how to post the tweet and photos that went with it.

[poboy2]

4. another-

Staff peer out of windows at a growing media scrum outside the office building where Cambridge Analytica has its London HQ

[thucythucy]

7. Why on earth would you "announce" your intention

to investigate before doing the paperwork necessarily to secure the documents you want to examine?

It seems to me to be pretty sloppy work on the part of British investigators.

Edited to add: I meant to post this in reply to the OP. Sorry for any confusion.

[poboy2]

9. I know...terrible protocol. They whisked away the most damning evidence!

[suffragette]

10. Thats a great point. It raises the question of whether this is typical procedure in the Uk or not.

[poboy2]

13. May be intentional to give them a heads' up lead. Sabotage. -nt

[lame54]

8. Every headline that uses CA...

I initially read as California

[suffragette]

12. I do the same with LA. I always think Los Angeles first and not Louisiana.

[Clarity2]

11. Didnt I see someone post here or on twitter

that UK officials had already arrived at CA and took possession of their servers?

[suffragette]

14. Good point. Did they take possession of servers or just chase out the Facebook team?

[Clarity2]

19. I've looked for updates

Seems no update to the warrant story. So it's obvious those files were taken by someone other than UK officials. Pretty stupid to give them a heads up.

[suffragette]

24. I dont see any updates on the warrant either. Wonder how much they have already funneled to

the new operation they’ve started with Erik Prince.

[suffragette]

26. Update here. Now saying not until Friday.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210396244

[Clarity2]

28. Ugh

Thanks for the update, but damn. Sounds fishy.

[suffragette]

29. That it does.

[poboy2]

15. After the Facebook folks were ushered out after deleting their stuff? -nt

[dreamland]

17. Why remove or delete anything,

if Facebook wasn't guilty?

[Mountain Mule]

20. K&R! nt

[poboy2]

21. .

[BSdetect]

22. Hope they recover all those "binders"

[Mc Mike]

23. Thanks, suffragette. Rec, nt.

[poboy2]

25. .

[OnDoutside]

27. Where the hell is MI5 ?

[poboy2]

30. I think they may be compromised. Looks like we are screwed.

[OnDoutside]

31. I don't think MI5 would be compromised, but I fear may be held back.

[suffragette]

32. Good question. Would they get involved in this at all or is it up to the data consumer protection

office to address the issues?

[OnDoutside]

33. I'm hopeful that they would have been all over this, as the implications of what happened are so con

sequential