{"id":41329,"date":"2021-10-20T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41329"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:12:30","slug":"more-legal-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41329","title":{"rendered":"MORE LEGAL WOES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D) on Wednesday added Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to an existing lawsuit alleging the social media giant failed to protect user data during the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Zuckerberg has been named in a complaint by an American regulator, according to Racine\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, initially filed in 2018, focuses on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when a data firm harvested information from as many as 87 million people without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the evidence we gathered in this case over the past two years and the District\u2019s investigation more generally, it\u2019s clear Mr. Zuckerberg knowingly and actively participated in each decision that led to Cambridge Analytica\u2019s mass collection of Facebook user data, and Facebook\u2019s misrepresentations to users about how secure their data was,\u201d Racine said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41330,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329\/revisions\/41330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}