Facebook Sued For 725 Million USD Over Customer Privacy Leaking Scandal

Facebook is one of the world's largest social media, with millions of subscribers. No wonder this one application stores so much personal data from its users.

However, tafansa.id, quoted by Reuters, stated that millions of user data on Facebook had been leaked and used for political purposes.

This privacy scandal also forced Facebook to pay 725 million United States dollars for the lawsuit it received.

This stems from the Cambridge Analytica case, which accessed personal data from 87 million Facebook users in 2018. Tens of millions of this data was used to create profiles and target users.

For information, Cambridge Analytica was a campaign consultant when Donald Trump ran for president in 2016. However, currently, the company is no longer operating.

Unfortunately, this company uses the wrong way in its campaign. It is known that a researcher allowed by Facebook to install an application that collects user data was found to provide this data to Cambridge Analytica without the user's consent.

As a result of this illegal action, the United States government also conducted an investigation into the security of privacy by Facebook. The aftermath of this case was the lawsuit against Meta, which at that time was called Facebook Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc also agreed to pay damages for a class action lawsuit involving Facebook with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Even though they had to pay a fantastic amount of losses, the plaintiff's team of lawyers stated that this was so that people would feel relieved and be able to trust again. Hope is a deterrent effect so as not to underestimate and leak other people's privacy with the wrong purpose.

"This nominal is the largest value in a class action lawsuit in the United States for data privacy, also the largest ever paid by Meta for a class action lawsuit," said the plaintiff's attorney team, quoted by tafansa.id by Reuters.

"This will be history, so that people's trust can return after the complicated privacy cases that have occurred," said Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver, the heads of the plaintiff's attorney team.

Unfortunately, through his official statement, in the lawsuit file, Meta did not admit his guilt and had to go through the approval of a federal judge in San Francisco. However, they stated that he was doing this "for the common good of the community and shareholders."

Meta also claims to have changed its approach to privacy and implemented a comprehensive privacy program over the last three years.

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