Judge Dismisses D.C.’s Privacy Lawsuit Against Meta

A lawsuit against Meta and the District of Columbia has been dismissed by a Supreme Court judge on privacy grounds. The lawsuit was filed in 2018 by the district’s attorney general at that time, Karl Racine, and accused Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of misleading and defrauding consumers by improperly sharing their data with third parties, including British political agency Cambridge Analytica. In his opinion, Judge Maurice A. Ross of the District of Columbia Supreme Court said Facebook’s policies clearly disclosed how third parties could access data “such that a reasonable consumer would not be misled” under the district’s consumer protection law.

Author: OpenAI