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Evening Standard
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Saqib Shah

Meta fined £10.5M in Australia for “deceptively” collecting VPN data

Meta has been handed a pair of fines totalling £10.5 million in Australia for breaching consumer law.

A federal court found that Meta misled the public by failing to disclose that it was using data gathered by its free VPN app for commercial purposes.

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