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  • It’s hilarious that one of the outcomes of Meta cozying up with the current administration to escape scrutiny at the Federal level has been 50+ state attorneys general prosecuting them instead.
    by paxy
  • 25B is not a small fine. Finally an amount that should make them think twice their harming decisions
    by jeanloolz
  • This is incredibly almost $12,000 per New Mexican resident. I wonder how much they will actually pocket after attorney's fees and appeals?
    by zuminator
  • I remember long ago, you could fully hide your profile from ANY type of search. Now you cannot. I also remember long before they started scanning your face, they added an opt-out checkbox, I'm pretty sure this disappeared for a long time. You know that feature where they'd auto-suggest who to tag? Yea, you could bar them from using your face for that, now Facebook has taken a steaming pile of... on your privacy at levels I've never seen them pull before.
    by giancarlostoro
  • Meta will surely appeal, and will likely get the fine reduced to like 10% of that. But for comparison, in the recent multistate settlement over social media addiction by 47 states for $17 billion, there was a provision in that settlement to get $459 million [1] in exchange for releasing Meta from any state claims related to Cambridge Analytica. So those 47 states got $459 million for what New Mexico will likely get a few billion for.

    [1] https://www.techpolicy.press/the-459-million-cambridge-analy...

    by notfried
  • All the states that participated in the class action settlement got $725 million combined.

    New Mexico decided to go it alone and gets $25 billion.

    Great timing for the AG who’s up for reelection on November 3 (even though it was the previous AG who made the call).

    by bananamogul
  • For those who haven't seen, the New Mexico Attorney General released tapes of the depositions for Zuckerberg [1] and Sandberg [2].

    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7UC2ie0XIE

    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1j4N-3ZkB4

    by stillpointlab
  • Sure, but where's the jail time for executives. This may be a bit more than the usual slap on the wrist, but its hardly consequence that actually matters to the likes of Meta. This will keep happening until those at the top are held personally responsible for the crimes they sign off on.
    by j_horvat

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