Zuckerberg’s Early Notes on Privacy Now Haunt Facebook in Suit

Company ordered by litigation referee to search for notebooks
Facebook complains of effort to harass, embarrass its CEO

Mark Zuckerberg
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Peter Blumberg

October 6, 2021 at 11:26 PM UTC

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If Mark Zuckerberg’s “juvenile jottings” on privacy from 15 years ago still exist, they’re about to be pored over by lawyers.

Facebook Inc. was ordered by a court-appointed referee to search for any personal notes by the company founder that haven’t been destroyed and might be relevant to a consumer lawsuit accusing the social networking giant of failing to safeguard privacy in the years leading up to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.