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District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. The suit alleges that Zuckerberg was \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for creating the lax privacy rules that allowed the consulting firm to harvest user data without consent, then failing to promptly inform users and ensure the data was deleted. It follows a failed attempt<\/a> to name Zuckerberg<\/a> in a similar suit against Facebook itself.<\/p>\n

Racine\u2019s fundamental accusations haven\u2019t changed since the earlier filing last year. The suit covers an incident<\/a> in which University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan collected personal information from around 270,000 Facebook users plus data from friends who hadn\u2019t consented to the collection. Kogan passed the information to Cambridge Analytica\u2019s parent company, which worked on former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign, in 2015. The details only became known when the incident leaked in 2018, and Zuckerberg publicly accepted responsibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cZuckerberg is not just a figurehead at Facebook; he is personally involved in nearly every major decision the company makes, and his level of influence is no secret,\u201d the complaint says<\/a>. \u201cWithin Facebook, Zuckerberg directly oversaw the product development and engineering work that was exposing consumer data to abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racine initially sued Meta (then known as Facebook)<\/a> in 2018, and that case remains ongoing. But a judge said in March that he\u2019d waited too long to add Zuckerberg as a party to that suit \u2014 something Racine argued would send a message to other corporate executives. Racine\u2019s office told The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> that the new suit is based on documents that were obtained during the Facebook litigation, bolstering the case against Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis unprecedented security breach exposed tens of millions of Americans\u2019 personal information, and Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s policies enabled a multi-year effort to mislead users about the extent of Facebook\u2019s wrongful conduct,\u201d Racine said in a statement reported by the Post<\/em>. \u201cThis lawsuit is not only warranted, but necessary, and sends a message that corporate leaders, including CEOs, will be held accountable for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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