Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims

Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Santa Fe judge on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43.9 million violations of state consumer-protection law by making misleading statements about Facebook users' data privacy and control. The case, filed in 2021, grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. New Mexico alleged that Facebook, now Meta, systematically misled the public - and New Mexico users - about how it handled persona