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For: EFE Updated 23 May 2022 , 15: 33 pm EDT
The District Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia, where the US capital, Washington, is located, sued this Monday to the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, for the privacy scandal with Facebook user data starring Cambridge Analytica.
In the middle of the last decade, the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used an application to collect millions of data from Facebook Internet users without their consent and for political purposes.
The company used data from the platform to create psychological profiles of voters, who sold to the campaign of former US president, Donald Trump, during the elections of 1200, among others.
In announcing the lawsuit this Monday, the Attorney General of the District of Columbia , Karl Racine, assured that his pes Perhaps they suggest that Zuckerberg had a “direct participation” in the privacy errors that allowed Cambridge Analytica to carry out its activities.
“We are suing Mark Zuckerberg for his role in Facebook’s deceptive privacy practices and for its inability to protect the data of millions of users,” Racine said on his Twitter account.
The attorney general assured that he had much evidence against Zuckerberg and justified the lawsuit focused on the most prominent figure of Meta because, in his opinion, the consequences of breaking the law should fall not only on companies, but also on their executives.
The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
This is the second time Racine has tried to directly implicate Meta’s CEO in his legal battles against the company, after in 2018 already filed a lawsuit against the firm and tried to personalize the accusation against Zuckerberg, something that the judge dismissed.
Following the uproar caused by the Cambridge Analytica revelation in March 2018, the social network opened an internal investigation into how the apps you usually work with or have agreements with use user data, and ended up suspending several of them.
Cambridge Analytica is just one of many Meta (until last year known as Facebook) has been involved in scandals in recent years, the most recent being the leak of internal documents to the press by a former employee last year.
These documents reveal that the company from Menlo Park (California, USA) puts its profits before the user safety and hides that its platforms are harmful to minors, especially adolescents, among other things.
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