British firm admits that it was hired to influence Guyana’s elections results

A British technology and Data Mining firm which claimed that politicians in Guyana had also used their services to achieve a particular elections result, is now under investigation in the UK after investigators accused the company of using voters information illegally.

A warrant was issued by a UK Judge last night, empowering investigators to search and seize information and computers from at least ten of the company’s offices in London, – an exercise which has begun several hours ago.

UK investigators are contending that the firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a number of technological methodologies to illegally store harvested user information particularly from Facebook, and then use that data to help sway the results of an election, in favour of the political party that hired them.

According to sources close to the investigations, the entity’s main methods are centered around harvesting user data from their Facebook account, along with their political preferences, and then use that data to push content and other particulars aimed at causing a person to change their political views.