Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
The ruling follows a jury finding that Meta committed more than 43 million violations tied to Facebook data privacy and content moderation practices.
- On Wednesday, Judge Francis Mathew ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties after a jury found the company misled users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.
- New Mexico was the only state to pursue a trial regarding the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal after 48 other states accepted an $18 billion settlement in August.
- Jurors concluded Meta committed over 43 million violations, prompting New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez to seek up to $40 billion; defense attorneys argued any penalty exceeding $3.4 billion would be unconstitutional.
- Meta plans to appeal the verdict, arguing the penalty is "shocking to the conscience," while Torrez announced the awarded funds will support the state's education system.
- Beyond the financial penalty, the state is seeking an injunction to stop Meta from continuing the practices that led to the jury's finding of liability in the privacy case.
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<p>Zuckerberg's company was fined a record $25 billion over the Facebook data scandal. A New Mexico court found that Meta had misled users about personal data for 11 years. The fine was reduced from 219 to 25 billion dollars.</p>
Meta ordered to pay $25B after jury finds it misled users on data privacy
Meta Platforms has been ordered to pay $25 billion after a New Mexico jury found the company misled Facebook users over its handling of personal data and other practices in a case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.New Mexico Judge Francis Mathew issued the penalty Wednesday after jurors found last month that Meta made dozens of misleading statements to users."Facebook's wrongdoing — over the course of years and systematically broadca…
Eight years after the scandal about the misuse of user data, Facebook company Meta in New Mexico has been sentenced to a billion penalty. The case should be a warning to other tech companies, the Attorney General said.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has received the largest fine ever applied against it for its commercial practices. Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered that Mark Zuckerberg's company pay $25 billion (18.6 billion pounds) following a two-week trial...
Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion in Data Privacy Case
A New Mexico judge has ruled that Meta owes $25 billion in penlties after being found liable of allowing a third party to harvest user data and misleading users about how their data was taken and what it was being used for. The judgement follows the Cambridge Analytica case from the 2010s, in which a […]
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