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High Court reporter Elizabeth Byrne

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

An estimated 300,000 Australian Facebook users were involved in the data breach.  (Reuters: Dado Ruvic)

A personality quiz on Facebook, which led to the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica data breach, will take centre stage in the High Court of Australia as the social media company's owner, Meta, battles it out with the national privacy commissioner.

As the High Court will hear, in 2014, Cambridge Analytica worked with a Facebook application developer to create an application that was at the root of a massive data breach, estimated to have collected data from more than 90 million Facebook users worldwide without their knowledge or consent.

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