Washington, D.C., attorney general Karl Racine has sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly failing to protect consumer data following the Cambridge Analytica data leak. (ABC News)
The suit alleges that Zuckerberg directly participated in policies that allowed Cambridge Analytica to gather the personal data of U.S. voters without their knowledge—in an attempt to help Donald Trump’s election campaign. (The Guardian)
The suit covers an incident in which University of Cambridge professor, Aleksandr Kogan, collected personal information from around 270,000 Facebook users—plus data from friends who hadn’t consented to the collection. Kogan passed the information to Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, which worked on former President Donald Trump’s campaign, in 2015. (The Verge)