Needless to say Facebook has had several major and minor cases. However, most people will be concerned about the cases Facebookremember Cambridge Analytica. In 2016, it created a Facebookfor an app that allowed hundreds of thousands of users to fill out a short survey in exchange for money. However, the company abused weak privacy protections and was able to obtain personal information about respondents, including their date of birth, address, friends, liked pages, and so on. The company allegedly obtained data on up to 87 milliononepeople whose data was subsequently misused for political campaigning and support of the then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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But things have changed after years, and Mark Zuckerberg is being sued by the Washington DC attorney general, who claims that the Meta pilot is personally responsible for the case. According to the prosecutor, Zuckerberg, as the head of the company, should have directly participated in the privacy rules, the transparency of which Cambridge Analytica abused. The lawsuit is said to be based on hundreds of thousands of documents, including employment statementsancSome of them argue that Zuckerberg should have been truly aware of the risks and should have protected users' privacy. ProIn his statement, the curator criticizes the laxity towards personal data that allowed the company to obtain data on tens of millions of Americans. The case will certainly be extremely interesting to follow.
