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A New Mexico judge has ordered Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a court filing issued Wednesday. The post New Mexico Judge Orders Meta To Pay $25 Billion in Cambridge Analytica Case appeared first on Breitbart .

Jury had found Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on ⁠Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump ’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users ⁠without their consent. “Facebook’s wrongdoing – ⁠over the course of ​years and systematically broadcast to the public – goes to the heart of Facebook’s core business practices,” Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order following the verdict. Continue reading...

Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties related to Cambridge Analytica scandal in New Mexico.

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties Wednesday after a jury found in September that the social media giant misled users about their data privacy. Why it matters: The penalties come nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke and signal that Big Tech can face significant financial consequences for misleading users about their privacy. Driving the news: Judge Francis Mathew determined the penalty amount Wednesday, handing New Mexico a win as the only state to take its claims to trial after 48 others settled. Mathew concluded New Mexico was entitled to $219.5 billion based on the state's maximum $5,000 penalty multiplied by 43,899,720 violations. He reduced that to $25 billion. Meta did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. The company has previously said it expects to appeal the decision. Catch up quick: In September, a New Mexico jury said Meta had committed 43 million "willful violations" of the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act. Mathew found that Facebook's privacy controls failed to give users meaningful control over their data and that third-party app developers could access their information through the platform's systems. Mathew found Mark Zuckerberg knew users didn't understand how data privacy works, and exploited that, noting that the CEO had once written that users "probably don't understand their current privacy settings or care about who sees their updates." Zuckerberg also wrote that the company should give users "a chance to change their privacy settings but obviously don't encourage it." Zoom out: The suit followed reporting that revealed data firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from more than 50 million Facebook users to craft political ads during the 2016 election. After the scandal, Facebook promised more transparency, but the court found Meta failed to consistently inform users when their data was misused. Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information throughout.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a trial that found it lied to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.