Meta Ordered To Cough Up $25 Billion In New Mexico Privacy Case
The case stemmed from the nearly decade-old Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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If you thought Meta's self-inflicted blows from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal were over, think again. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay the state $25 billion in penalties, having found that the company made misleading statements about the privacy of consumers in the state. "It has been a long time coming holding Big Tech accountable," New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a press conference (via Reuters).
The case, filed in 2021, wasn't directly about the data harvested by Cambridge Analytica. Instead, it targeted Facebook's statements over the years regarding user data, privacy settings and content moderation.
In September, a Santa Fe jury found that Meta violated New Mexico's Unfair Practices Actby misleading residents on those issues. The jury counted a staggering 43 million violations. At up to...
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