MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th November, 2018) Facebook is calling on the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to refrain from viewing Facebook internal documents that it had recently obtained from US software company Six4Three that filed a lawsuit against Facebook in May, a Facebook spokesperson told the Observer newspaper on Sunday.
On Friday, Stuart Gross, a Six4Three lawyer, confirmed that the DCMS had obtained the secret documents from Six4Three, without specifying when it had happened.
"The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook. We have no further comment," the Facebook spokesperson said.
David Collins, the chairman of the DCMS, forced the Six4Three founder to hand the documents over to the committee in a move that Collins himself qualified as an "unprecedented" one.
"This is an unprecedented move but it's an unprecedented situation. We've failed to get answers from Facebook and we believe the documents contain information of very high public interest," Collins told the Observer.
In May, Six4Three filed a lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg developed a "malicious and fraudulent scheme" that "weaponized" Facebook's ability to access the data of users.
The case was based on internal emails and messages that Facebook executives had shared.
