Cambridge Analytica’s London offices raided by British investigators

Enlarge / The offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London. Facebook expressed outrage over the misuse of its data as Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the center of a major scandal rocking the social media giant, suspended its chief executive. (credit: Brais G. Rouco/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

British enforcement officers have entered the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica, according to The Guardian and the BBC.

The raid appears to have come after Wednesday's formal approval for a search warrant by a local judge.

"We are pleased with the decision of the Judge, and the warrant is now being executed," said an unnamed spokesperson for the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom's data privacy watchdog, in a Friday statement. "This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data and analytics for political purposes. As you will expect, we will now need to collect, assess and consider the evidence before coming to any conclusions."

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