Meta’s Record Privacy Settlement Spurs Dispute Over State Claims

Meta Platforms Inc. is wrong to say its $725 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming Facebook illegally shared user data with a controversial research firm protects it from similar claims brought by New Mexico, attorneys for the US state said.

Meta resolved the consumer case over Cambridge Analytica last year, in what lawyers representing Facebook users said was the largest recovery ever in a data-privacy class action. But New Mexico said it was surprised Tuesday when Meta took the position that the agreement arrived at in federal court in San Francisco “will extinguish” a similar lawsuit the southwestern state has ...