Facebook Dubs Cambridge Analytica MDL 'Broadside' Against Business Model, Moves to Dismiss
Plaintiffs lawyers, however, consider the Cambridge Analytica scandal "the tip of the iceberg" in Facebook's "willful pursuit of generating revenue at the expense of its users.”
December 06, 2018 at 02:25 PM
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Facebook Inc. has moved to dismiss lawsuits brought over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, insisting that plaintiffs lawyers had turned the case into “little more than a broadside against Facebook's business model.”
Plaintiffs have no injuries to establish standing to sue over “far-fetched legal theories,” according to Facebook's motion, filed last month. Furthermore, the motion notes plaintiffs consented to allowing Facebook the use of their personal data when signing up for the social media site.
“Ever since the March 2018 news reports about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook users' data, plaintiffs have been trying to find a viable cause of action against Facebook,” wrote Facebook attorney Orin Snyder, a New York partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, in a Nov. 2 motion to dismiss. “But plaintiffs' 255-page complaint is little more than a broadside against Facebook's business model: a lengthy description of how Facebook works, followed by a kitchen sink-like lobbing of 50 claims—all in the hopes that something, anything, sticks.”
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