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Australia sues Facebook, alleges breach of user data

A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. [REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration]

The Australian privacy regulator filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media giant of sharing the personal details of more than 300,000 people with political consultant Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.

In the Federal Court lawsuit, the Australian Information Commissioner accused Facebook of breaching privacy law by disclosing 311,127 users’ information for political profiling via a survey product, ‘This Is Your Digital Life’, on its website.

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