Iranian judge summons Mark Zuckerberg to court over privacy concerns

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Iranian judge summons Mark Zuckerberg to court over privacy concerns
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This doesn't seem like it's going to be high on Mark Zuckerberg's priority list.

An Iranian judge has summoned the Facebook CEO to appear in court to answer users' complaints surrounding the company's apps, including Instagram and Whatsapp. According to ISNA, the country's "semiofficial" news agency, judge Ruhollah Momen Nasab wants the apps to be blocked because of privacy concerns.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.