{"id":646,"date":"2021-11-18T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/mark-zuckerberg-to-be-added-to-facebook-privacy-suit-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:47:08","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-to-be-added-to-facebook-privacy-suit-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/mark-zuckerberg-to-be-added-to-facebook-privacy-suit-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy Suit &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Advertisement<br \/><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/cecilia-kang\" class=\"css-mrorfa e1jsehar0\">Cecilia Kang<\/a><\/span><br \/>WASHINGTON \u2014 The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Wednesday added <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/04\/technology\/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-phhhoto.html\" title=\"\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to a consumer protection lawsuit, in one of the first efforts by a regulator to expose him personally to potential financial and other penalties. The attorney general, Karl Racine, said that continuing interviews and reviews of internal documents for the case had revealed that Mr. Zuckerberg played a much more active role in key decisions than prosecutors had known.<br \/><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/29\/business\/dealbook\/facebook-meta-rebranding.html\" title=\"\">Facebook<\/a> is at the center of multiple legal battles with regulators. It is the target of antitrust and consumer protection lawsuits by the Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general.<br \/>Regulatory pressure is also mounting. U.S. lawmakers are introducing bills to regulate social media companies and technologies that spread harmful content. On Wednesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote Mr. Zuckerberg asking him to testify in a hearing on Instagram\u2019s harms to teenagers. Also on Wednesday, Britain\u2019s antitrust authority fined <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/29\/business\/dealbook\/facebook-meta-rebranding.html\" title=\"\">Facebook<\/a> $70 million for breaching reporting rules related to an investigation of the company\u2019s acquisition of Giphy.<br \/>None of those actions have directly addressed the role played by Mr. Zuckerberg, who has more than 50 percent control of voting shares. But Mr. Racine\u2019s move could result in large financial penalties for Mr. Zuckerberg. The District of Columbia could can seek up to $5,000 for any of the district\u2019s 300,000 residents who may have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica data privacy violation.<br \/>\u201cThis is a power move and gets to the problem,\u201d said David Vladeck, a professor of law at Georgetown and the former head of consumer protection at the F.T.C. \u201cFacebook is very unusual because of its corporate structure that makes Mark Zuckerberg the ultimate decider on all important decisions.\u201d<br \/>Mr. Racine\u2019s <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/19\/technology\/dc-sues-facebook-cambridge-analytica.html\" title=\"\">complaint against Facebook<\/a> was filed in December 2018 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The suit charges that Facebook misled consumers about privacy on the platform by allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, to obtain sensitive data from more than 87 million users, including more than half the district\u2019s residents.<br \/>Facebook asked a judge to dismiss the suit, saying the company never misled consumers. In June 2019, Judge Fern Flanagan Saddler rejected the motion and kicked off a long period of discovery, which has included interviews with current and former employees and reviews of Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s testimony in Congress and interviews with law enforcement officials.<br \/>Mr. Racine said the investigation showed that a major product shift in 2010, which gave hundreds of third-party developers free access to Facebook\u2019s user data, was a \u201cbrainchild\u201d of Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s. Among those third parties was an academic who then turned over Facebook data to Cambridge Analytica.<br \/>Facebook knew the company\u2019s data had gotten into the hands of Cambridge Analytica but didn\u2019t disclose the data privacy breach for more than two years.<br \/>\u201cUnder these circumstances, adding Mr. Zuckerberg to our lawsuit is unquestionably warranted, and should send a message that corporate leaders, including the C.E.O., will be held accountable for their actions,\u201d Mr. Racine said in a statement.<br \/>Facebook can file a motion to dismiss the attorney general\u2019s amendment to include Mr. Zuckerberg as a defendant. The company has fought the complaint, along with antitrust lawsuits filed by the F.T.C. and nearly every state and the District of Columbia.<br \/>The company has denied the allegations in the attorney general\u2019s lawsuit, saying it hasn\u2019t misled consumers about its data privacy practices. Its decision to open the platform to third-parties in 2010 was public.<br \/>\u201cThese allegations are as meritless today as they were more than three years ago, when the District filed its complaint,\u201d said Andy Stone, a spokesman for Facebook. \u201cWe will continue to defend ourselves vigorously and focus on the facts.\u201d<br \/><strong>A tech giant in trouble.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>The leak of internal documents by a former Facebook employee has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/04\/technology\/facebook-files.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">an intimate look<\/a>\u00a0at the operations of the secretive social media company and renewed calls for better regulations of the company\u2019s wide reach into the lives of its users.<\/span><br \/><strong>How it began.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>In September, The Wall Street Journal published The Facebook Files, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/17\/business\/dealbook\/facebook-files-whistleblower.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">a series of reports based on leaked documents<\/a>. The series exposed evidence that Facebook, which on Oct. 28 assumed the corporate name of Meta, knew Instagram, one of its products <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/01\/technology\/facebook-instagram-teenagers.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">was worsening body-image issues among teenagers<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><strong>The whistle-blower.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>During an interview with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that aired Oct. 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/03\/technology\/whistle-blower-facebook-frances-haugen.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager <\/a>who left the company in May, revealed that she was responsible for the leak of those internal documents.<\/span><br \/><strong>Ms. Haugen\u2019s testimony in Congress.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>On Oct. 5, Ms. Haugen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/05\/technology\/what-happened-at-facebook-whistleblower-hearing.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">testified before a Senate subcommittee<\/a>, saying that Facebook was willing to use hateful and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/05\/technology\/haugen-facebook.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">harmful content<\/a>\u00a0on its site to keep users coming back. Facebook executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, called her accusations untrue.<\/span><br \/><strong>The Facebook Papers.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>Ms. Haugen also filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided the documents to Congress in redacted form. A congressional staff member then supplied the documents, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/25\/business\/facebook-papers-takeaways.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">Facebook Papers<\/a>, to several news organizations, including The New York Times.<\/span><br \/><strong>New revelations.<!-- --> <\/strong><span>Documents from the Facebook Papers show the degree to which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/22\/technology\/facebook-election-misinformation.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc\">Facebook knew of extremist groups on its site<\/a>\u00a0trying to polarize American voters before the election. They also reveal that internal researchers had repeatedly determined how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/25\/technology\/facebook-like-share-buttons.html?action=click&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-facebook-meta&#038;variant=show&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;block=storyline_levelup_swipe_recirc&#038;module=RelatedLinks&#038;pgtype=Article\">Facebook\u2019s key features<\/a>\u00a0amplified toxic content on the platform.<\/span><br \/>Facebook\u2019s lawyers have been particularly combative about attempts to name Mr. Zuckerberg in previous regulatory actions. In 2011 and 2019, its lobbyists and lawyers fought back attempts by the F.T.C. to name him as a respondent in privacy cases.<br \/>In May 2019, commissioners at the F.T.C. <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/04\/technology\/federal-trade-commission-facebook-mark-zuckerberg.html\" title=\"\">clashed on making Mr. Zuckerberg responsible for data privacy abuses related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal<\/a>. The agency\u2019s two Democratic members argued to expose him to financial and other penalties in settlement negotiations with the company. Facebook\u2019s lawyers fought back and said Mr. Zuckerberg couldn\u2019t be responsible for the actions of tens of thousands of employees. In July 2019, the F.T.C. announced a $5 billion settlement with Facebook, without holding Mr. Zuckerberg responsible.<br \/>Facebook has become engulfed in a public relations crisis in recent weeks, after a whistle-blower, Frances Haugen, accused it of hiding damaging information about its products. Mr. Zuckerberg has stepped back from the public eye since internal <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">documents shared by Ms. Haugen first became public<\/a>, except to make product announcements and with a long defensive post rebutting her accusations.<br \/>Mr. Racine said Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s influence at the company was integral to his lawsuit and how the company functioned.<br \/>\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 attorney general said in the lawsuit.<br \/>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-lawsuit.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AdvertisementBy Cecilia KangWASHINGTON \u2014 The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Wednesday added Facebook\u2019s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to a consumer protection lawsuit, in one of the first efforts by a regulator to expose him personally to potential financial and other penalties. 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