Facebook Seeks Dismissal of District of Columbia Privacy Lawsuit

Facebook Inc., acknowledging it’s under fire for its handling of users’ personal data, asked a judge in Washington to throw out D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s consumer-protection lawsuit.

“This is the wrong case in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and it should be dismissed,” the company’s lawyers said. Noting their client is already defending a broad-based federal lawsuit in California, and dealing with congressional hearings and public criticism, the lawyers derided Racine’s claims as “little more than a broadside against Facebook’s business model.“

Racine accused the Menlo Park, California-based company of violating the district’s consumer-protection laws by misrepresenting ...