Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, will testify in September for the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Facebook users in California, which will take 6 hours.
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Cambridge Analytica scandal
The Cambridge Analytica scandal first emerged in 2018, when a British data analysis company called Cambridge Analytica collected the data of millions of Facebook users without their consent, and caused a great stir. The company has worked hard to regain its reputation since 2018. It even changed its name to Meta in October 2021, but still hasn’t escaped investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Stored documents will also be available
Sheryl Sandberg, who left his role at Meta in June, and his replacement, Javier Olivan, will also testify. It is stated that prosecutors will also call other Facebook executives, who are key witnesses, for long-term testimony. Facebook will also hand over more than 1200 documents that it holds privileged to prosecutors.
It’s not the first time Zuckerberg has been called to testify about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Facebook founder appeared before the US Senate in 2018 to present evidence of how the company handled user data following the scandal.
In 2019, Facebook was fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for the Cambridge Analytica data breach. This has seriously damaged the tech giant’s reputation for user privacy.
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