Emerdata Limited

data company established in August 2017 by many of the people involved in Cambridge Analytica

Emerdata Limited is a political consulting company in London, formed in 2017. Ex-employees of Cambridge Analytica and SCL moved to successor firms, these companies dissolved with acquisition by holding company Emerdata Limited. The company is now owned by Rebekah Mercer and Jennifer Mercer according to Cambridge Analytica's bankruptcy filing in New York. Cambridge Analytica was before owned by their family, including their father Robert Mercer, a computer scientist. In July 2018 the Emerdata director was Jacquelyn James-Varga. The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has imposed to sue Cambridge Analytica after misusing data scraped from 87 million social media users. The company was soon bought by Emerdata Limited after the news on misappropriation of digital assets was publicized.[1]

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  1. "The strange afterlife of Cambridge Analytica and the mysterious fate of its data". Fast Company. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2019.