U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria ordered Meta Platforms and its law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to pay $925,000 over their "delay, misdirection and frivolous arguments" in a data privacy lawsuit, Reuters reports. Chhabria said Meta and the firm mounted a "sustained, concerted, bad-faith effort to throw obstacle after obstacle in front of the plaintiffs" in the case over the company's sharing of user data with third parties.
13 Feb. 2023
Judge sanctions Meta, law firm in privacy case
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