Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Privacy Violations
Original title: Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations
New Mexico court rules Meta misled consumers on data control in 43 million violations case tied to Cambridge Analytica.
Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court after it was found to have made misleading statements about user data privacy. The ruling addresses more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law. The case stems from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal where data from millions of Facebook users was collected without consent via a personality quiz app. Meta banned the app in 2015 and previously settled related lawsuits including a $18 billion deal with most US states.
Unconfirmed: Meta intends to appeal the decision.
- 43 million violations of unfair practices law
- Related to Cambridge Analytica psychographic profiles
- Company plans to appeal the ruling
- Prior $18 billion settlement with US states
- Vendors
- Meta
- Victims
- Facebook users
- Organizations
- New Mexico court
- Countries
- United States
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Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called
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