Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in fine linked to 8-year-old data privacy scandal
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion fine following a jury verdict that found the company liable for deceiving users regarding data privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The judge justified the massive penalty by citing the systematic and willful nature of the company's repeated violations.
Why it matters
This represents a landmark legal judgment against a major tech corporation, setting a significant precedent for how data privacy violations are penalized.
A New Mexico state court has ordered Facebook-parent company Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty following a long legal battle stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal from nearly a decade ago. The judgment, revealed in a court filing on Wednesday (October 21), follows a September verdict by a jury in a Santa Fe courthouse. Jurors found the social media giant liable for deceiving New Mexico residents regarding how it gathers and safeguards personal data, as well as how it stops harmful content from spreading across its platforms.The jury determined that Meta committed more than 43 million individual violations of the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act, each subject to a statutory civil fine of up to $5,000. However, the final penalty amount was left to judicial discretion.
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