US regulators said they had found political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data They ordered the company to stop making misrepresentations about its privacy protections WASHINGTON: US regulators said they had found political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data . The Federal Trade Commission, in a statement announcing its findings, said it had also ordered the company “to continue to apply privacy shield protections to personal information it collected while participating” in EU-US Privacy Shield program.