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Technology · 57 minutes ago

New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over data privacy

New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over data privacy

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The massive penalty will go to the state's school system after a jury decided the tech firm misled its users. The lawsuit stems from the 2016 scandal where Cambridge Analytica took personal information from millions of Facebook accounts without asking. The judge reduced the final fine on Wednesday from an original calculation of more than $219 billion.

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