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/

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