"The law is clear that Facebook had a duty to safeguard users' personal information – a duty that it neglected," he said. "With an experienced team, committed class representative and funding and after-the-event insurance in place, we believe this claim offers the best avenue of redress for consumers who suffered at the hands of Facebook's failure to abide by data protection laws." In 2019, Facebook agreed to pay a £500,000 fine after an ICO investigation into the misuse of personal data in political campaigns. The ICO's probe found that between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed user data by letting third-party app developers access personal information with the user's informed consent. Cambridge Analytica was the most high-profile of the cases involved. The company closed in 2018 and was said to have worked with Donald Trump on his US presidential campaign. In the UK, the company was accused of using data to target potential Leave voters in 2016's Brexit referendum.