新墨西哥州法院裁定Meta因在用户数据隐私问题上误导消费者而被责令支付25亿美元罚款123。陪审团在9月认定该公司存在超过430万起违反新墨西哥州不公平贸易法的行为25，涉及向消费者做出关于数据保护、不实信息防控和仇恨言论审核的虚假承诺5。法官最终将原要求赔偿的2195亿美元大幅削减至25亿美元，并规定年利率为15%直至全额清偿2。
这一判决与2016年剑桥分析数据丑闻相关，当时该英国政治咨询公司从Facebook获取了约8700万用户数据用于政治广告投放67。新墨西哥州于2021年提起诉讼，拒绝了与Facebook的和解协议7。法官认定Meta在2010年至2021年超过11年的时间内故意实施了误导性行为，虚假声称用户数据未经许可不会与第三方共享，实际上已被共享6。Meta此前在2022年已为剑桥分析丑闻支付7.25亿美元和解款2。此外，Meta还需支付5.67亿美元到公共滋扰基金，原因是其儿童安全违规2。
A New Mexico court has ruled that Meta must pay $25 billion in penalties for misleading consumers about data privacy protections on Facebook123568. The jury determined in September that the company violated New Mexico's unfair trade practices law in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with findings of over 4.3 million violations2567. The violations spanned more than a decade, from 2010 to 2021, during which Meta made false claims that user data would not be shared with third parties without permission, when in fact such sharing had occurred67.
The case originated from a 2021 complaint filed by then-New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, with current Attorney General Raúl Torrez overseeing the prosecution2. The judge initially calculated damages at approximately $219 billion but reduced the final award to $25 billion, with an annual interest rate of 15% until full payment2. Judge Francis Mathew characterized Meta's conduct as willful deception, stating that Facebook promised users they controlled their own data when "this is false"67. The court also found that communications from Mark Zuckerberg and other executives were "designed to mislead the public"6.
This represents Meta's largest penalty to date. The company is also required to pay an additional $567 million to New Mexico's public nuisance fund due to child safety violations2. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, which surfaced in 2016, involved the unauthorized harvesting of approximately 87 million Facebook user profiles for political advertising purposes7. In 2022, Meta had previously settled with federal regulators for $725 million related to the same scandal2.
评论
还没有评论，欢迎留下第一条。