<story><title>Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/australia-sues-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-fine-could-scale-to-529bn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poooogles</author><text>The fact that we (the UK) only fined Facebook £500k [1] is an utter scandal.  You can probably say $529bn is too much, but the appropriate amount might be somewhere in the middle of the two...&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;facebook-agrees-to-pay-uk-data-watchdogs-cambridge-analytica-fine-but-settles-without-admitting-liability&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;facebook-agrees-to-pay-uk-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/australia-sues-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-fine-could-scale-to-529bn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Upvoter33</author><text>facebook could turn their public perception around in a second by declaring that it is not a political platform and banning political ads. I honestly don&amp;#x27;t care how much they market me to coke and pepsi, but the impact on democracies is way creepier...</text></comment>