Facebook Found Liable as TikTok Settles for $100m over User Safety
Jurors said the company deceived consumers about data privacy in a case tied to 87 million profiles and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- On Friday, a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for misleading users regarding privacy protections, violating 43 million consumer protection laws.
- The trial centered on claims that Meta misled users about a data breach, harvesting information from about 87 million profiles through a personality quiz and selling it to Cambridge Analytica for political advertising.
- Jurors also found Facebook published deceptive statements about protecting the data of New Mexico's entire population of more than 2 million; New Mexico stands as the only state pursuing this specific case.
- Meta spokesperson Alex Burgos said the company will "continue to defend ourselves against efforts to distort our record," while TikTok agreed to a $100 million settlement in Alabama regarding allegations of addictive algorithms.
- At least 27 other states have sued over similar privacy claims, and this verdict follows an August settlement in which Meta agreed to pay $18 billion to resolve a separate multistate lawsuit involving child safety issues.
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The company Meta was found guilty by a US jury for exploiting the personal data of some Facebook users. This case comes in addition to a growing list of lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg's group on the opacity of the operation of its applications, particularly regarding their addictive potential.
A New Mexico jury has ruled that Facebook deceived residents of the US state over the use of their personal data in a trial involving the Cambridge Analytica scandal. New Mexico is the only state to go to court over the case, one of the largest privacy breaches in internet history. The British firm Cambridge Analytica exploited the personal data of tens of thousands of Facebook users, which was collected without their knowledge, for political pu…
A New Mexico jury found that Facebook fooled millions of users about their privacy practices.
A New Mexico jury on Friday found that Facebook had deceived the people of this U.S. state on the use of their personal data, in a trial resulting from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to American media.
New Mexico is the only state to have brought to court this scandal, in which the British consulting firm had exploited for political purposes the data of tens of millions of Facebook users, collected without their knowledge. The other states that were prosecuting Meta for this scandal ended their claims at the end of August, against 459 million dollars, in the framework of a broader agreement on the protection of minors signed with Facebook's pa…
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