Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial
Facebook is on trial in New Mexico over privacy concerns that emerged during the 2016 election when a political consulting firm bought user data harvested from millions of profiles to generate targeted ads.
TL;DR
- Facebook is on trial in New Mexico.
- The trial concerns privacy issues from the 2016 election.
- A political consulting firm obtained user data from millions of profiles.
- This data was used to generate targeted ads.