British regulators finished searching the offices of Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of a Facebook data scandal, before dawn today and said they would examine the evidence before considering "next steps".
After receiving a warrant from a judge, about 18 enforcement agents from the Information Commissioner's Office entered the company's London offices at around 8:00 pm (local time) yesterday.
"Our investigators left the premises at about 03:00 am (local time)," a spokesman for the data watchdog said today.
"We will now need to assess and consider the evidence before deciding the next steps and coming to any conclusions.
"This is one part of a larger investigation by the ICO into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors."
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