Meta still faces a civil court action over its dealings with Cambridge Analytica in Australia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - An Australian court ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay fines totalling A$20 million for collecting user data through a smartphone application advertised as a way to protect privacy without disclosing its actions.
The fine wraps up one strand of Meta’s legal issues in Australia related to its handling of user information since ain the 2016 US election. Wednesday’s judgment was in relation to a virtual private network service the company – then called Facebook – offered from early 2016 to late 2017, Onavo, which it advertised as a way to keep personal information safe.However, Facebook used Onavo to collect users’ location, time and frequency using other smartphone apps, and websites they visited for its own advertising purposes, Judge Wendy Abraham said in a written judgment.
She added that the court could have fined Meta hundreds of billions of dollars since Australians downloaded the app 271,220 times and each breach of consumer law carried a A$1.1 million fine, but “the contraventions can be characterised as a single course of conduct”.
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