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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:34PM
Leftist conspiracy? Started by Steve Bannon and funded by the Mercers? Cambridge Analytica is an alt-right agit-prop operation, designed to get the UK out of the EU, and to keep Mitt Romney from running for USA President again. I suspect there actually is Russian collision.