“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American history. The US$25 billion fine came in a case about how Trump campaign firm Cambridge Analytica deceptively used data from Facebook users without…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's deposition in a New Mexico court case is played for jurors on March 4, 2026. Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool “The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American…