Attorney General of the Metropolitan District of Columbia in the United States Karl Reisin said that the founder and head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was involved in the data breach of social network users associated with Cambridge Analytica. On this basis, Reisin included Zuckerberg on the list of defendants in the 2018 lawsuit against the company.
“I just added Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant to my lawsuit against Facebook. Our ongoing investigation has shown that he was personally involved in decisions related to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s failure to protect user data. We have taken our obligation to investigate very seriously, and Facebook must also take seriously its responsibility to protect users. ” wrote Racine on Twitter.
Reisin sued Facebook in December 2018 over a user data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica is a company that has acquired personal data of 50 million people. In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, led by Steve Bannon, future adviser to Donald Trump, devised a way to digitally profile U.S. voters and target political ads to them, the Observer said. The incident was the reason for the call of the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, to the US Congress. In April 2019, the US Federal Trade Commission issued a record $ 5 billion fine to Facebook in the Cambridge Analytica case.
A tool that would allow to delete the collected information, Facebook announced in 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
In January 2020, Facebook disclosed to users what information it collects about them outside of the social network. Facebook now has a tab called “Activities outside of Facebook”, which can be accessed from the account settings. The page contains data on which sites a person visited and which applications he launched. The social network collects this information even when the user does not log into his account. The Clear History button allows you to delete this data, but does not prevent Facebook from collecting it in the future.
The Washington Post reporters then noted that Facebook also stores information about visits to sites that are related to a person’s personal life, for example, sites of insurance agencies and fertility clinics.
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