DC sues Zuckerberg for violating Cambridge Analytica’s privacy

District of Columbia sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

DC sues Zuckerberg sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, seeking to hold him personally responsible for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That jeopardized the privacy of millions of personally identifiable information from Facebook Users hurt. It has become a corporate scandal and big politics.

DC sues Zuckerberg District Attorney for the District of Columbia Carl Racine has filed a civil suit against Zuckerberg in the District Court. The lawsuit alleges that Zuckerberg was straight involved in major corporate decisions also was aware of the likely dangers of sharing user data, as with data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica collected data from about 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

As a news, your data has been used to manipulate the 2016 presidential election.

Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook since 2012, controls more than 50% of Facebook’s voting stake and “maintains an unprecedented level of control oacross Facebook’s operations. As it grows into the world’s largest social media company,” he said accordingly. This social media giant has nearly 3 billion users worldwide. In addition, meta has a market value of over $500 billion.

Racine is seeking damages and damages from Zuckerberg, as may be determined at trial. Meta Platform spokesman Andy Stone denied to comment. Meta, a mother of Facebook, Instagram, also WhatsApp, lives in Menlo Park, California.

In recent years, meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple have been the subject of lawsuits from federal agencies and prosecutors on both sides. Accusing the tech giants of dominating also abusing the market. But Racine’s case leads to a rare action by regulators that specifically targets Big Tech’s CEO.

Zuckerberg has been directly involve in decisions that have led to a massive data breach. While Facebook misled users with claims of privacy protections, the lawsuit says.