Facebook Scandal Is a `Game Changer’ for Data Privacy Regulation

• U.K. privacy chief speaks about new rules coming into force

• ICO is leading the European probe into Cambridge Analytica

Revelations that data belonging to as many as 87 million Facebook Inc. users and their friends may have been misused became a game changer in the world of data protection as regulators seek to raise awareness about how to secure information.Elizabeth Denham, the U.K. privacy regulator leading the European investigations into how user data ended up in the hands of consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, said in a speech Monday that the technology industry and regulators must improve the public’s trust and confidence ...