DC Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Alleged Privacy Violations From Cambridge Analytica Scandal (washingtonpost.com)

The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, "likes" and other personal data about tens of millions of the social site's users without their permission. From a report: The lawsuit filed by Karl Racine [PDF], confirmed Wednesday by two people familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on record, marks the first major effort by regulators in the United States to penalize the tech giant for its entanglement with the firm. It could presage even tougher fines and other punishments still to come for Facebook as additional state and federal investigations continue.

The lawsuit comes as Facebook continues to face criticism around the world for mismanaging its users' personal information. On Friday, for example, the company admitted that some users' photos may have been improperly accessed by third-party apps. On Tuesday, new details emerged about Facebook's extensive data-sharing arrangements with corporate partners including Amazon and Spotify. The report from The New York Times quickly triggered another round of calls from Capitol Hill for the tech giant to be penalized. To that end, a person familiar with the new D.C. lawsuit said it is likely to be amended in the future to include more recent allegations of improper data collection and use.

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Re:9th amendment

[DarkOx]

No it does not such thing. It creates a stupidly reasoned legal loophole that allows a select group of people to commit murders of convenience.

Use condoms, take the pill whatever; but once you make a life its not yours to take. The bill of rights is very explicit and privacy was NOT an unknown idea at the time. If the framers had intended to create a absolute privacy right they would have done so!

Oh and by the way the same "reasoning" that was ultimately used in Roe could logically be applied to almost ANY activity. If Roe is good law than really government can't do all kinds of other things it does. Why for example can the government require reporting about a private contract with your employer for income tax purposes?

Roe makes exactly no-sense. Its morally repugnant too; literally every pro-abortion argument denies the humanity of the unborn; with zero scientific backing for doing so. Pro-murder advocates used to blather about viability, until that got pushed further and further back. Now they do almost anything they can to prevent ultrasounds of the procedure because guess what they make it painful clear that the unborn feel pain and at least react to it; yet they know the way the procedure is performed would not be acceptable in terms of cruelty to use in a slaughter house on beasts. Abortion appologists and advocates use the same arguments that have been used to justify American slavery, Nazism, and a multitude of other ethnic genocides around the world - that isn't a coincidence.

My view is anyone who isn't prolife at this point is 1) ignorant of the science; 2) ignorant of history; or 3) a really terrible person.