States Agreed to ‘Fully, Finally, and Forever’ Release Meta From Claims They Didn’t Know Existed

States agreed to ‘fully, finally, and forever’ release Meta from claims they didn’t know existed — with $459 million for Cambridge Analytica claims

“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American history. The US$25 billion fine came in a case about how Trump campaign firm Cambridge Analytica deceptively used data from Facebook users without their permission to create psychographic profiles to target voters in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. But the New M…

Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

States agreed to ‘fully, finally, and forever’ release Meta from claims they didn’t know existed

“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American history. The US$25 billion fine came in a case about how Trump campaign firm Cambridge Analytica deceptively used data from Facebook users without their […]

Meta's $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

A New Mexico judge's fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.