A decide has dismissed the lawsuit filed in opposition to Meta by the lawyer normal of Washington, DC, which alleged Meta’s “lax” privateness insurance policies led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In a ruling on Thursday, Superior Court docket Decide Maurice A. Ross discovered that “Fb didn’t materially mislead customers as to their response to Cambridge Analytica.”
On this ruling, nevertheless, Decide Ross argues that Meta took “plenty of enforcement actions” in opposition to the third-party app in query, ordered it to delete the info it had on customers, and began an investigation. “Whereas the District might disagree with Fb’s method to the scenario, there is no such thing as a authorized foundation that required Fb to behave in a different way,” the ruling reads. “The actions that Fb took have been per its acknowledged insurance policies.”
“We respectfully disagree with the Court docket’s resolution and are contemplating all of our choices,” Gabriel Shoglow-Rubenstein, the press secretary for DC’s workplace of the lawyer normal, says in a press release to The Verge. Meta declined to remark.