A New Mexico judge has ruled that Facebook’s parent company deceived millions of users about how their personal data was collected and shared
A US judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for deceiving Facebook users about the privacy of their personal data, in a landmark ruling stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that exposed the harvesting of personal information from millions of Americans for political campaigns.
New Mexico District Judge Francis Mathew issued the ruling on Wednesday, following a September jury verdict finding Facebook’s parent company responsible for nearly 44 million violations of the state’s consumer protection laws.
The judge concluded that Meta’s misconduct warranted a penalty exceeding $219 billion under state law, but reduced the amount to $25 billion, making it one of the largest financial penalties ever imposed on an American corporation.
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