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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations
The Hacker News • • business
Key Points:
- A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over privacy violations linked to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, citing more than 43 million breaches of the state's unfair practices law.
- Judge Francis J. Mathew criticized Meta for misleading consumers by falsely promising users control over their data.
- The lawsuit stems from Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized collection of data from millions of Facebook users via a personality quiz app, which was banned by Meta in 2015.
- Meta has previously faced significant fines, including a $5 billion FTC penalty in 2019 and a $725 million class-action settlement in 2022 related to the same scandal.
- Meta's chief legal officer stated the company plans to appeal the New Mexico ruling, following recent settlements with most U.S. states totaling $18 billion for child safety and data privacy measures.
