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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Christopher Knaus

Australia’s privacy watchdog to enter talks with Facebook owner over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

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Facebook’s owner Meta has been ordered to enter mediation with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner over legal proceedings related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Australia’s privacy watchdog will soon enter negotiations with the Facebook owner to end protracted, costly legal proceedings over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, more than five years after it was first revealed.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is still pursuing Meta, which owns Facebook, in the federal court over alleged privacy breaches affecting more than 300,000 Australian Facebook users caught up in the scandal.

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