Oral arguments in Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank will begin
The justices are set to review securities law as they hear arguments in a significant case linked to the 2015 data breach involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.
The tech giant’s effort to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank could narrow the opportunities for private investors to hold companies accountable under federal laws that regulate corporate misconduct.
In 2016, the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica accessed and exploited the data of over 30 million Facebook users in relation to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
In light of Facebook’s awareness of the data breach and before the public disclosure of Cambridge’s significant data practices, the company proactively submitted a securities filing to its investors that detailed the potential risks stemming from a security breach as well as the likely adverse effects on Facebook’s operations and stock performance.
That disclosure did not reveal that, as Facebook was aware, a large breach of that sort already had occurred.
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