Demands Grow for Facebook to Explain its Privacy Policies<br />On Monday, Common Cause, a government watchdog group in Washington, filed complaints seeking<br />federal investigations into allegations that the company violated federal election law.<br />“It defies belief that even after their own attorney warned them<br />that they would be violating the prohibition on performing certain election-related activities in U. S. elections that they did so anyway,” said Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause’s vice president for policy and litigation.<br />“I’m sure this is much bigger than Cambridge Analytica,<br />and I’m sure there are other Cambridge Analyticas out there,” Senator John Kennedy, Republican from Louisiana, said in an interview.<br />In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, lawyers appealing two lawsuits<br />that challenged the social media company’s privacy and user data policies<br />By TIFFANY HSU and CECILIA KANGMARCH 26, 2018<br />confirmed its investigation but ended the day up 0.4 percent as overall trading on Wall Street recovered from a big drop last week.<br />But former employees contradicted that account, suggesting<br />that the work violated laws in the United States that strictly limit what non-Americans can do for American political campaigns.<br />The group also filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, which has day-to-day jurisdiction over enforcing election rules.<br />Common Cause filed one complaint with the Justice Department, which has authority to investigate “knowing and willful” violations of campaign law.
