{"id":245835,"date":"2026-10-23T01:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-after-court-finds-43-million-privacy-violations"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:47:02","slug":"meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-after-court-finds-43-million-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-after-court-finds-43-million-privacy-violations","title":{"rendered":"Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/series\/cambridge-analytica-files\/all\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Analytica data scandal<\/a>, which came to light in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/facebook-penalty-cambridge-analytica-new-mexico-b329f82c3d3db3758a159405acbd4d0e\" target=\"_blank\">the Associated Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/21\/technology\/meta-penalty-new-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/meta-ordered-pay-25-billion-new-mexico-after-jury-finds-company-misled-consumers-2026-10-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-to-new-mexico-in-data-privacy-case-dea99fdd\" target=\"_blank\">the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called out Meta and Facebook for making misleading statements about the privacy of consumers in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook promised users that they (the users) controlled their data,\u201d Mathew wrote in his ruling. \u201cThis was false.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company\u2019s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}