May 23, 2022 05:58 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23137967/dc-attorney-general-karl-racine-lawsuit-mark-zuckerberg-facebook
DC attorney general sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica scandal
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. The suit alleges that Zuckerberg was “directly responsible” for creating the lax privacy rules that allowed the consulting firm to harvest user data without consent, then failing to promptly inform users and ensure the data was deleted. It follows a failed attempt to name Zuckerberg in a similar suit against Facebook itself.
Racine’s fundamental accusations haven’t changed since the earlier filing last year. The suit covers an incident in which University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan collected personal information from around 270,000 Facebook users plus data from friends who hadn’t consented to the...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23137967/dc-attorney-general-karl-racine-lawsuit-mark-zuckerberg-facebook
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