California AG Asks Court to Order Facebook Compliance Over Privacy Subpoenas
San Francisco Superior Court should order Facebook comply with an investigatory subpoena about alleged data privacy violations, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) said Wednesday. Allegations involve the company’s Cambridge Analytica privacy breach. The subpoena was issued in June, and…
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Facebook provided “inadequate responses” and failed to “provide, or even search for, responsive documents among the communications of the company’s senior executives,” Becerra said. Responding to a second subpoena, the platform “provided no answers to 19 out of 27 written interrogatories, provided a partial response to six, and produced no documents in response to six document requests,” the AG said. The company has “cooperated extensively" with California’s investigation, said Vice President-State and Local Policy Will Castleberry in a statement. “We have provided thousands of pages of written responses and hundreds of thousands of documents.”