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Comment: Zuckerberg's 2018 promise to ban privacy-invading apps has legal consequences

By Amy Miller
  • 08 Sep 2021 17:53
  • 08 Sep 2021 17:53
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s public promise in 2018 to root out and ban privacy-invading apps in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data breach is having unintended legal consequences for the social network.
It’s preventing Facebook from keeping documents related to an internal audit of app developers out of class-action

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Amy Miller

Senior Correspondent


Amy is responsible for the coverage of an array of regulatory and litigation issues pertaining to the Internet, including privacy, data security and antitrust. Formerly a legal reporter for the ALM media group, Miller has closely followed legal trends in Silicon Valley and covered corporate legal departments for online and print publications including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The Recorder. Miller is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is an award-winning journalist with expertise ranging from education and legal reporting to computer-assisted reporting.

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