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posted by janrinok on Thursday September 05 2019, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-chance dept.

https://www.ibtimes.com/mark-zuckerberg-going-jail-us-senator-mentions-prison-time-facebooks-ceo-over-privacy-2821637 [ibtimes.com]

Senator Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon has floated the idea that Mark Zuckerberg has committed crimes by operating the website known as "Facebook."

In an interview published last week, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon discussed the consequences he believes Facebook should face for its repeated lies about privacy practices. Specifically, Wyden told Willamette Week that CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg may deserve prison time.

"Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy," Wyden said. "I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to — and let me underline this — the possibility of a prison term. Because he hurt a lot of people. And, by the way, there is a precedent for this: In financial services, if the CEO and the executives lie about the financials, they can be held personally accountable."

The outlet included a citation of University of Oregon professor Tim Gleason who said the odds of Zuckerberg facing criminal action to be "slim."

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 06 2019, @01:38AM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 06 2019, @01:38AM (#890338) Journal

    Your pals come after you. Sure, FB can pay off this guy this time, but then that will give many others the same idea and they too will come with their hands out, threatening jail time. Then some will compare notes and find out that Bill got half of what Bob got, and he'll get pissed and call for hearings, and hey diddle diddle FB will be shedding dollars like rain.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @07:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @07:27AM (#890428)

    https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=Ron+Wyden&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org]

    Ron Wyden is not a friend of FB. He is more of a friend to this site than Zuck's.

    Unfortunately, his ideas often die on the vine.