Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
admitted Tuesday that his company made mistakes, but his lawyers are
insisting they have no liability for mishandling millions of people’s
most personal dataFacing multiple lawsuits, including a new class-action complaint this week, Facebook says it followed the law, its own rules and a previous settlement with the U.S. government closely enough that it can’t be held liable.
“Facebook broke no laws and violated no legal duties,” said Facebook’s lawyers from Gibson Dunn in a filing Friday, as lawyers tried to figure out how to handle more than a dozen cases already filed in the wake of revelations that the company’s data was harvested and used by a political consultancy with ties to the Trump campaign in 2016.
Many of the 87 million users whose data was collected by Cambridge Analytica say they felt blindsided by it, saying they had thought that violated the privacy assurances Facebook had made.
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