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Facebook can't 'further delay' securities litigation over privacy claims, US judge says

By Mike Swift ( February 19, 2025, 22:55 GMT | Insight) -- After seven years of litigation by Facebook blocking a securities claim over its 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, including a trip up to the US Supreme Court, a federal judge in California denied the company from moving to dismiss claims for the fourth time. US District Judge Edward Davila said Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, "cannot further delay" evidence discovery into the facts of the case.Seven years after Facebook’s shareholders sued the company in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, a federal judge in California said today that the company can no longer anchor the case in the pleading stage....

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