DC’s Attorney General sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica
The District of Columbia attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, aiming to hold the Facebook co-founder personally liable for enabling the political consulting Cambridge Analytica agency to gather the data from millions of Americans during the 2016 election season.
The laws... Read more
Facebook won’t be leaving the EU, but something has to change
A court document released this week seemed to suggest that Facebook might be forced to close its European operations. However, the company said that this outcome would not happen.
At the beginning of this month, Ireland's Data Protection Commission investigated Facebook and found that the compan... Read more
Justice Department is going ‘full tilt’ on the tech antitrust probe
Attorney General Jeff Rosen said that the U.S Justice Department is going full tilt on the tech antitrust probe. The investigations target large companies like Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Even though he said that he could not commit to a date by which the department would bri... Read more