In court documents Meta says parts of the case brought against it by Australia’s privacy regulator are ‘embarrassing’ and ‘defective’
The private messages, pictures, email addresses and the content of Facebook users’ posts are not “sensitive information”, the social media giant has argued in court as it fights a protracted case over thebreach, in which tens of millions of users’ data was harvested using a personality quiz and used to aid political campaigns, including Donald Trump’s election.
Meta, the documents show, is fighting the allegations it is liable for a serious privacy breach involving Australian users’ data. Facebook has also sought to cast doubt on the OAIC’s estimate of the number of Australian users who were affected, saying the true number was “substantially lower” than the 311,127 Australians alleged by the regulator.
Meta also said the first that it learned of the potential misuse of data was in December 2015, when an investigation was first published in the Guardian alleging academic Aleksander Kogan, who built the quiz app, may have transferred user data in breach of his contract with Facebook.
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