Washington, D.C.’s attorney general filed a motion to add Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a lawsuit accusing Facebook of misleading its users about the security of their personal data
personally liable in a lawsuit stemming from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, in what the district said was a novel legal action against the social-media giant.
Attorney General Karl Racine said Wednesday he filed a motion to add Mr. Zuckerberg as a defendant in a consumer-protection lawsuit originally filed in December 2018 accusing Facebook of misleading its users about the privacy and security of their personal data. His office said it was the first time a U.S. regulator has specifically named Mr. Zuckerberg in a complaint.
Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said the “allegations are as meritless today as they were more than three years ago, when the District filed its complaint.Mr. Racine said he made the decision after reviewing company documents as part of discovery in the lawsuit. “It’s clear Mr. Zuckerberg knowingly and actively participated in each decision that led to Cambridge Analytica’s mass collection of Facebook user data and Facebook’s misrepresentations to users about how secure their data was,” he said.
The development is a reminder of the legal threats facing Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg. The Washington, D.C., lawsuit was filed after the disclosure that Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political consulting firm,
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