Mark Zuckerberg, as well as several figures in the American technology sector, which occupied or occupied functions on Facebook (now Meta), have concluded an agreement to end a negligence trial linked to the case of Cambridge Analytica.
The transaction, reported on Thursday to the AFP by two sources close to the file, intervened the day after the opening of the debates before a Wilmington court (Delaware). Facebook shareholders, who have since become a goal, had seized American civil justice in 2018 after the rupture of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
This British consulting firm had collected, without authorization and without their knowledge, the personal data of dozens of millions of Facebook users, then used for political orientation during the 2016 US electoral campaign and the Brexit referendum.
Crime of initiate
Shareholders criticized Mark Zuckerberg, as well as his former number two, Sheryl Sandberg (part of 2022), for having demonstrated, on this occasion, negligence in the management of the group.
Administrator Marc Andreessen was also attacked, a figure of investment capital in the technological sector, as well as the former members of the Board of Directors, businessman and investor Peter Thiel and former director of Joe Biden, Jeffrey Zients. All were also involved for the crime of initiates. Goal was not prosecuted as a legal person.
Shareholders, composed of group action, claimed more than eight billion dollars in damages, a sum based on a calculation that incorporates fines paid by Facebook to resolve the prosecution related to Cambridge Analytica, as well as legal costs.
The fine of $ 5 billion imposed by the FTC of the American Consumer Consumer Protection Agency was, in part, linked to the violation of an agreement held in 2012 with the Government, including Facebook’s commitment not to give access to third parties, without authorization, to the personal data of the users of social networks.
All the defendants would be interviewed during the trial, but the agreement avoids a public appearance before the Delaware Court, only that Jeffrey Zients testified at the Opening on Wednesday. The amount of the agreement is unknown.
Source: BFM TV
