New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users over Cambridge Analytica
CBS has both the attorney general’s and Meta’s statements, and what happens next.
After a two-week trial in Santa Fe, a jury found Facebook liable for misleading users about privacy protections tied to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting, which affected about 87 million profiles, and for over 2 million violations. The judge will set the penalty; the state asks for the $5,000-per-violation maximum, and Meta says it disagrees with the verdict.
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Jury verdict; the state seeks the maximum penalty and Meta says it disagrees and will keep defending itself.
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D), who brought the case: “For years, Facebook operated as if the rules that apply to everyone else didn’t apply to them. Today, a jury of New Mexicans said otherwise.”
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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
After exploring Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case, for how it started, read Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
The original 2010s scandal: data from millions of Facebook users collected for political advertising without informed consent.
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