New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25bn over data claims
Original title: Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy
The penalty covers Facebook statements from 2010 to 2021 tied to Cambridge Analytica; Meta says it will appeal.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25bn after a trial found the company misled the public about Facebook user data sharing. The case grew out of Cambridge Analytica’s use of data from millions of Facebook users. Judge Francis Mathew called the violations willful and cut a calculated $219bn penalty to $25bn. Meta’s lawyer said the company will appeal and expects to succeed.
Unconfirmed: Meta says its planned appeal will succeed; that outcome is not decided.
- A jury found more than 40 million violations of state law.
- State lawyers said about 2 million residents were affected.
- New Mexico sought up to $40bn; Meta argued above $3.4bn was unconstitutional.
- The FTC fined the company $5bn in 2019 over data practices.
- Meta settled a separate California child-safety case for $18bn this year.
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From the original article
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Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit with the largest ever fine against it for its business practices. A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18. 6bn) following a two week trial earlier this year that found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.
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