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Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails
A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta's former COO and board member, for deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
The plaintiffs alleged that Sandberg and Zients used personal email accounts to communicate about issues relating to a 2018 shareholder lawsuit that accused Facebook leaders of violating the law — and their fiduciary duties — in failing to protect users’ privacy. “The defendants disclosed Sandberg’s personal Gmail account, maintained under a pseudonym, that she used to ‘communicate about matters potentially relevant to the claims and defenses in this action,’” the judge’s decision reads. At the root of the courtroom battle are allegations that Meta officials violated a 2012 FTC order under which the company agreed to stop collecting and sharing Facebook users’ personal data without their consent.
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