Zuckerberg's notes from 15 years ago haunt Facebook in lawsuit over privacy

It's been a bad week for Facebook, which faced an unprecedented global outage of the company's sites and a damaging interview by a former insider turned whistle-blower

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 the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The company strenuously objected to even reviewing the material, arguing that the only reason plaintiffs’ lawyers want to see it is to “exert pressure on Facebook by harassing and embarrassing