High Court to decide if Facebook is liable for the possible breach of 300,000 Australians' personal data

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class="YtLlr aHS+3 V-v0y fm7dv _8teMo _5pKBM" data-component="Text">The Facebook quiz behind the Cambridge Analytica data breach is the subject of a High Court caseFacebook, now owned by Meta, is fighting to avoid prosecution for breaching privacy lawsUp to 300,000 people in Australia may have been affectedThe application collected this data not just by pulling information from the public profiles of those who used Facebook to log into personality quizzes, but also by collecting details from anyone who was friends with them on the social media site. "Facebook entities did not adequately inform the affected Australian individuals of the manner in which their personal information would be disclosed, or that it could be disclosed to an app installed by a friend," the submissions to the High Court read. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced

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