Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyers: No liability in Facebook’s mishandling of millions’ personal data

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times 

 

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 data

Facing 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.

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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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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: New York Times Writer Attacks Pompeo and Bolton for Opposing Jihad
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

All right-thinking people know there is no jihad threat, right? My latest in PJ Media: The New York Times is immensely frightened by President Trump’s appointments of Mike Pompeo as secretary of State and John Bolton as national security advisor, and that’s a very good sign. But the paper has definitely put its smear machine […]
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Publisher Sued by Holocaust Survivors for Printing Books Praising Adolf Hitler, Nazis
By Geller Report Staff

Two Holocaust survivors as well as a Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter kicked off a lawsuit against Katmar publishers, accusing the company of violating their rights as persons and their dignity for taking to print some books that praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

It’s the first of its kind in Poland.

Ynet News has more:

The lawsuit, filed on Friday in a Warsaw court under Articles 23 and 24 of the civil code, alleges that the Katmar publications violate the plaintiffs’ rights, including their dignity as persons who suffered under the Nazi German regime in occupied Poland.

One of the plaintiffs fought the Nazis in the doomed 1944 Warsaw Uprising while the two Holocaust survivors were both saved from the Warsaw Ghetto as children. Their family members were killed by the Nazis.

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Fox News First

Developing now, Wednesday, April 11, 2018

• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes on Capitol Hill for his company's mishandling of users' private data, concedes he cannot recall removal of liberal groups' content because of anti-conservative bias
• President Trump, angered by the FBI's raid on attorney Michael Cohen, reportedly mulled firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
• The FBI's raid on Cohen’s office and hotel room may have stemmed from evidence of significant payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, an analyst told Fox News
• Syria's alleged poison gas attack has the U.S. and its allies considering a response, while President Trump canceled plans to attend a summit in South America

THE LEAD STORY - 'WE'VE MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES': Under fire for a privacy scandal that has rocked his company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly apologized for his company's failures in protecting users' data in five hours of questioning before the Senate on Tuesday ... Zuckerberg testified before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees amid an ongoing controversy over the gathering of user data by Cambridge Analytica, a firm affiliated with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

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