From Forbes
Facebook Risks These Criminal Charges In Multiple Investigations Over Its Privacy Practices
By Alex Knapp
The Department of Justice may be pursuing a criminal investigation into Facebook, reported the New York Times, which said a grand jury in the Eastern District of New York has subpoenaed at least two device makers about their data-sharing agreements with the social media giant...
“Filing false info with the FTC and other regulators can be criminally prosecuted,” Chris Hoofnagle, faculty director of the Berkeley Center of Law & Technology, told Forbes in an email...
There are other laws that may be implicated here beyond just not accurately reporting privacy practices, according to Hoofnagle. Certain practices, he notes, might be considered “wiretapping” if users’ communications were intercepted...
“Under other statutes, there is sometimes a specific standard articulated for personal liability,” he said. “A great deal will have to do with Zuckerberg’s personal direction of decisions..."
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is an adjunct full professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and School of Law.
