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Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

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A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

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  1. The Conversation US

    Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal (opens The Conversation US)

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    A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

  2. The Conversation US

    Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal (opens The Conversation US)

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    A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

  3. Fast Company

    Meta paid billions, but largely escaped accountability for Cambridge Analytica. Here’s why (opens Fast Company)

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    “The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American history. The $25 billion fine came in a case about how Trump campaign firm Cambridge Analytica deceptively used data from Facebo…