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Meta to set up $50M privacy payment scheme to settle Australian proceeding | TechCrunch

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73% Informative

Meta agrees to a $50 million payment program to settle a long-running proceeding in Australia related to misuse of information for political ad targeting.

The OAIC sued Facebook in March 2020 — pursuing damages for the 300,000 + local users believed to have been caught up in the data heist.

A long legal process followed, but Meta has now agreed to an enforceable undertaking that ends civil penalty proceedings.

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semi-formal

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English

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74

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short-lived

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