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High Court reporter Elizabeth Byrne

High Court dumps Facebook's challenge against prosecution over Cambridge Analytica privacy breaches

Cambridge Analytica is estimated to have accessed data from almost 90 million Facebook users. (Flickr CC: Thought Catalog)

The High Court has refused to hear a challenge from Facebook, which argued it should not face prosecution for an alleged privacy breach that may have affected hundreds of thousands of Australians.

The social media giant's lawyers appeared before the court this morning to argue it was not responsible for the impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal on its Australian users.

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