Facebook faces New Mexico privacy trial
New Mexico’s attorneys are pursuing Facebook over privacy violations related to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data breach, accusing the platform of deceiving users about privacy protections. The case involves allegations that Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest data from approximately 87 million profiles and sell it to a political consulting firm linked to the 2016 Trump campaign. New Mexico seeks maximum civil penalties for each violation and an injunction to prevent future data breaches, making it a singular state-level legal challenge against Meta, which previously settled with 48 states over related issues.
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