Meta Settles Cambridge Analytica Claims For $459 Million

Meta just paid four hundred fifty-nine million dollars to settle decades-old Cambridge Analytica claims tucked inside a massive child-safety deal. Forty-seven states and Washington agreed to fully release the tech giant from any unknown or future privacy claims. The money was folded into a seventeen billion dollar settlement reached in August twenty-six in Oakland federal court. But here is the catch. The deal clears Meta of past actions before anyone even knows the full scope of the data harvesting. A New Mexico judge previously ordered a twenty-five billion dollar penalty for deceptive statements about privacy practices. Yet the company still escapes accountability for how psychographic profiles actually targeted voters during the twenty-sixteen election. The biggest judgments measure the cover-up rather than the real crime.