Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Penalty in Data Privacy Case

Gadgets360 - Oct 22, 2026

The ruling came in a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. New Mexico had sued Meta, accusing it of lying to Facebook users in New Mexico about who had access to their data.

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