Last week, Santa Fe District Court judge, Frances J. Matthew, fined Meta $219,498.6 billion which he reduced to $25 billion, after a jury found Meta liable for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children, earlier this year.
The judgment is only 20 pages, very accessible and worth reading in full.
Some of the highlights:
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March of 2018 Facebook promised a comprehensive review to
32. ...The decision was deliberately made to narrow Facebook's internal definition of data misuse so that Facebook would not have to notify as many people due to the operational burden of doing so. That decision was never communicated to users, despite the very public promise to notify in all cases of misuse.
The judge then notes that the US Supreme Court has not said that the 8th amendment to the constitution, preventing government from imposing excessive fines, applies to corporations. So,
It is an unequivocal judgment against Facebook and an indictment of the unethical behaviour of their senior people.
The only thing the judge doesn't explain is why he reduced the penalty from $219 billion to $25 billion.
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