2 Million Violations: Facebook Found Liable For Deceiving Users In US

A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform.It is now up to the judge to determine how much the company would pay, with attorneys representing the state asking for the maximum $5,000 penalty per violation.The two-week trial in Santa Fe centred on accusations that Facebook deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to generate targeted ads.