Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

新墨西哥州對Meta開出250億美元罰單，但處罰針對的是其誤導用戶的行為，而非劍橋分析濫用數據造成的實際傷害。作者梳理十年訴訟與和解歷程，指出Meta通過保密協議和“未知索賠”條款規避了對數據剝削後果的追責。