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Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

Posted on June 12, 2019 by pogowasright.org

This is not exactly a “Good News” day for Facebook, it seems.  They lose a motion to dismiss in a GDPR case, and their stocks also tumble after the Wall Street Journal reported that Zuckerberg appeared to have had more involvement in, or at least knowledge of, problematic privacy practices.

John D. McKinnon, Emily Glazer, Deepa Seetharaman and Jeff Horwitz report:

Facebook Inc. uncovered emails that appear to connect Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to potentially problematic privacy practices at the company, according to people familiar with the matter.

Within the company, the unearthing of the emails in the process of responding to a continuing federal privacy investigation has raised concerns that they would be harmful to Facebook—at least from a public-relations standpoint—if they were to become public, one of the people said.

Read more on WSJ.

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