Australia; He is suing Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which occurred in 2018, causing a global scandal and causing billions of dollars of damage to the social media giant. According to the Law on Protection of Personal Information in Australia, per capita penalty can reach up to $ 1.7 million. Experts think there are 311,074 Australian Facebook users out of the 86 million profiles used by Cambridge Analytica. In other words, the penalty Facebook will pay reaches $ 529 billion, the technology giant was sentenced to £ 500 billion in the UK for a similar reason. Facebook case: The Australian Intelligence Commission Office’s website announced that lawsuits were filed against Facebook. The claimant’s claim was that the company seriously and consistently interfered with confidentiality. In the lawsuit filed against the company, it was claimed that the personal data of Australian Facebook users were revealed with the ‘This is Your Digital Life’ application, and even political profile was determined with the collected data and the data were shared with third parties. According to the news in Tech Crunch, the said ‘This is Your Digital Life’ application was designed by a developer named GSR and used by Cambridge Analytica to collect and process Facebook users’ data. Its purpose was alleged to be targeted political advertisements. Australian Intelligence and Privacy Chief Angelene Falk said in a statement, “The default settings of Facebook make it easier to reveal personal information. For this reason, we think that the data of 311,127 Australian Facebook users are used to sell and create a political profile. ”
