Judge Orders Software Exec to Turn Over Laptop After He Leaked Data on Facebook
- Trove of documents was sealed by judge in California lawsuit
- Judge calls disclosure despite court order ‘unconscionable’
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The co-founder of a software company was ordered by a judge to surrender his laptop to a forensic expert after admitting he turned over confidential documents about Facebook Inc. to the U.K. Parliament in violation of a U.S. court order.
Sensitive internal Facebook records that were supposed to remain sealed in a California lawsuit were leaked to a parliamentary committee by one of the founders of app Six4Three, which sued Facebook three years ago over access to friends’ data.