07-02-2022 13:57 via telecoms.com

Australian court throws out Facebook claim that it doesn’t do business there

An Australian court has rejected an appeal by Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, allowing court action to proceed.
In March 2021 the Australian Information Commissioner sued Facebook for disclosing the personal information of 311,127 Australian users to Cambridge Analytica via the This is Your Digital Life app, and claimed it had misled users as to how their data was being used. This was all wrapped up in the wider Cambridge Analytica scandal in which it was claimed data was bei
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