David Carroll, an associate professor at the Parsons School of Design, is hoping to use British data protection laws to discover how he was profiled and targeted by Cambridge Analytica, a company allegedly involved in a data analytics operation during the Trump campaign, the Guardian reports. Though the company has been tied to Trump and pro-Brexit campaigns, little is known about how it uses personal data. Ravi Naik, the lead lawyer in the case, is calling it a “window of opportunity” as he explained how “the data protection framework is set up in such a way that it doesn’t matter where people are: it matters where the data is processed.” Frank Pasquale, a law professor at the University of Maryland, calls the case a “watershed moment,” adding, “ I think we will look back and see it as a really significant case in terms of the future of algorithmic accountability and data protection.”
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