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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion in New Mexico Privacy Case

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Summary

A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over more than 43 million state unfair-practices violations tied to consumer privacy. Meta criticized the penalty and plans to appeal.

Key points

  • The ruling concerns more than 43 million violations of New Mexico’s unfair-practices law.
  • The case followed the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from Facebook users and their friends was collected through the thisisyourdigitallife quiz app.
  • The article says the app’s data collection ultimately involved a dataset of 87 million profiles.
  • Meta banned the app in 2015 and asked Cambridge Analytica to delete the collected data.
  • Meta’s chief legal officer criticized the penalty and said the company intends to appeal.

Article Details

Event Type
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over alleged privacy-law violations.
Impact
The ruling concerns more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's unfair practices law, based on findings that Meta and Facebook made misleading statements about consumer privacy. The case stems from Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook users' data without consent; Meta intends to appeal.

People

C.J. MahoneyMeta chief legal officer who criticized the penalty and said the company intends to appeal.Francis J. MathewNew Mexico state District Court judge who issued the ruling and said Facebook's statements about user control of data were false.

Products

FacebookReuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called out Meta and Facebook for making misleading statements about the privacy of consumers in the state.Instagramto pay $18 billion over the next decade and implement stronger child-safety measures on Facebook and Instagram. This also includes $459 million for claims related to the Cambridge Analytica matter.

Industries

Political consultingcase, filed in 2021, was filed in the aftermath of revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, obtained data belonging to millions of Facebook users without their consent to buildSocial mediaSocial media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to

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