Australian privacy watchdog launches court action against Facebook | ABC News

Social media giant Facebook is being taken to Federal Court over alleged privacy breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The charges concern the personality quiz application This is Your Digital Life, which shared data with the now-notorious British data analysis firm.
Editor for Gizmodo, Tegan Jones, joins ABC News Channel to explain how it happened and why it’s taken so long for Australia to reach this point, well after Britain and the US also sued the social media giant.

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