D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)Facebook suffered an early defeat in a D.C. court Friday, after a judge rejected the social-networking giant’s request to quash a case brought by the D.C. attorney general challenging the company’s privacy practices. [‘It’s about time’: Facebook faces first lawsuit from U.S. regulators after Cambridge Analytica scandal]Facebook has long contested Racine’s charges. In doing so, she cited evidence submitted by the attorney general’s office showing Facebook had generated roughly $10 million in revenue in the final three months of 2018. In a March filing with the court, government lawyers referred to an “email chain that shows Facebook employees based in Washington D.C. .

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2019 17:09 UTC