New Mexico asked a state-level judge on Oct. 1 to impose penalties from $35 billion to $40 billion on Meta Platforms for misleading consumers about Facebook data privacy practices.
Lawyers for the state made the request at a hearing in a lawsuit brought after revelations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke in 2018. The British political consultancy, which worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, collected personal information from up to 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app. The users had not agreed to that collection. The firm turned the data into political profiles and targeted ads.
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