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Facebook argues Australian users’ data harvested in Cambridge Analytica scandal is not ‘sensitive information’

In court documents Meta says parts of the case brought against it by Australia’s privacy regulator are ‘embarrassing’ and ‘defective’

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The private messages, pictures, email addresses and the content of Facebook users’ posts are not “sensitive information”, the social media giant has argued in court as it fights a protracted case over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Australia’s privacy regulator has been locked in federal court proceedings with Facebook, now Meta, since 2020 over the Cambridge Analytica breach, in which tens of millions of users’ data was harvested using a personality quiz and used to aid political campaigns, including Donald Trump’s election.

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