Data share probe: Court says facebook has case to answer
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A U.S. judge on Friday denied Facebook Inc.’s request to dismiss a
lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media
giant’s improper sharing of 87 million users’ data with British
political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
The U.S. capital city sued Facebook in December, accusing it of
misleading users because it had known about the breach for two years
before disclosing it and had allowed third-party app makers to access
user information without their consent.
Judge Fern Flanagan Saddler signed the order denying Facebook’s
motion to dismiss, or alternatively, stay proceedings, the court said in
a brief statement on its website.
It was the second legal blow for the world’s largest social network
on Friday, after a judge in Delaware ordered it to turn over to
shareholders emails and other records on its handling of data privacy,
also linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the decision.
Cambridge Analytica, hired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016
election campaign, used a personality quiz distributed on Facebook to
gather profile information in order to predict and influence voter
behavior.
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