Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued for Cambridge Analytica Scandal|Anthony Quintano|CC BY 2.0
Washington’s District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for creating lenient privacy policies that allowed the Cambridge Analytica firm to harvest personal data of US voters without consent.
He accuses Zuckerberg of being personally responsible for the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal emerged from an incident in which Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor, gathered personal information from more than 250,000 Facebook users. Zuckerberg publicly accepted the responsibility.
Racine alleges that Zuckerberg violated the Consumer Protection Procedures Act by misleading Facebook users about the privacy of their data and failing to disclose a violation of it.
Racine's accusations have not changed from his earlier lawsuit.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal
Cambridge Analytica used millions of Facebook users’ data, without their knowledge, to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump.
