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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are already dealing with numerous private lawsuits over non-consensual data sharing, but they now have to grapple with a state-level lawsuit. Illinois' Cook County has filed a lawsuit against both companies accusing them of violating the state's Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica allegedly broke the law by misrepresenting its "thisisyourdigitallife" app as an academic research tool when it was really meant to harvest personal data against Facebook's agreements. Facebook, meanwhile, was accused of falsely promising to protect user data and doing nothing to stop Cambridge Analytica for years after learning of its behavior.
Source: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica hit with first state lawsuit
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:29PM
There is no advantage to killing FB. You see what they do is required for herding the sheeple. If they are not doing it, someone else will, and might use slightly more opaque techniques to do so. Right now I can avoid FB quite handedly. When all the ISPs are doing deep analysis of my HTTPS traffic, I won't be able to opt-out.