Australia Launches Federal Court Action Against Facebook.

The Australian Information Commissioner has lodged proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, alleging the social media platform has of shared the personal details of more than 300,000 people with political consultant Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.

The Commissioner alleges that the personal information of Australian Facebook users was disclosed to the This is Your Digital Life app for a purpose other than the purpose for which the information was collected, in breach of the Privacy Act 1988.

The information was exposed to the risk of being disclosed to Cambridge Analytica and used for political profiling purposes, and to other third parties.


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