The Australian Information Commission has been allowed to move forward with a case against Facebook over alleged privacy breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
In March the watchdog lodged proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, alleging that the personal information of more than 300,000 Australian Facebook users collected by the This is Your Digital Life app were exposed to Cambridge Analytica for political profiling - which is not what it was collected for.
This week the court granted leave to the Australian Information Commissioner to serve legal documents on US-based Facebook Inc and Facebook Ireland.
The court found that “the material demonstrates a genuine argument about contravention, sufficient to justify causing the respondents to be subject to the litigation in Australia where the merit of that argument can be judicially determined”.
Angelene Falk, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner, welcomes the Court’s ruling, saying “it opens the path for the case to move forward to the substance of the proceedings”.
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