Over half a decade after it first captured the world's attention, the Meta CEO and former COO will have to give testimony to a federal court regarding their alleged involvement in the company's notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal.
According to a new filing in the Northern District of California, the two people will be deposed in September of this year. Meta is accused of violating consumer privacy laws when it shared user data with Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica used Facebook user data to target potential voters ahead of the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. Facebook agreed to a record-setting $5 billion settlement with the FTC over its privacy practices.
The court wants to depose Meta's newly named CTO, as well as a number of other "key witnesses" The deposition will take three hours. Meta will give over 1,200 documents that were previously hidden as privileged. Meta and the law firm were accused of stonewalling during the discovery phase.
Several legal actions related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal have reappeared recently. In May of this year, the Attorney General of Washington D.C. sued Facebook for allowing the Cambridge Analytica data hack. The founder directed the company to team up with outside groups that collected Facebook user data to manipulate users, according to a lawsuit. According to previous complaints, Facebook was aware of Cambridge Analytica's questionable data-harvesting practices months earlier than the company stated.
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