[iw] - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added to D.C. privacy lawsuit

[Richard Forno]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added to D.C. privacy lawsuit

The attorney general for the District of Columbia plans has added Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to a lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, one of the first times the tech scion has personally been targeted by regulators.

Back in 2018, Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued the social media giant on accusations of unfair and deceptive trade practices under the District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act. Under the CPPA, individuals are liable for the actions of a company if they were aware of them at the time.

But after reviewing hundreds of thousands of pages of internal documents and interviewing former employees and others, it became evident that Zuckerberg “knowingly and actively” participated in each decision leading up to Cambridge Analytica’s mass collection of user data and misrepresented how secure that data was, Racine said Wednesday in a statement.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/20/mark-zuckerberg-lawsuit-racine/