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Australian government sues Facebook for $529B
The Australian government is suing Facebook because they said the Cambridge Analytica scandal, despite happening some time ago, violated the country's privacy laws.
According to Mashable:
"According to the suit filed to the Australian Federal Court on Monday, Facebook violated the privacy of approximately 311,127 Australians by disclosing their personal information to the This is Your Digital Life app between March 2014 and May 2015. The developers of the app sold personal information to Cambridge Analytica, which used it for political profiling.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner alleges that Facebook 'failed to take reasonable steps to protect those individuals’ personal information from unauthorised...