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Meta's jurisdictional challenge to Cambridge Analytica lawsuit to be heard by top Australian court (*update)

By James Panichi ( September 16, 2022, 01:20 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms’ campaign to undermine an Australian privacy lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica data breach received a boost today, with the country’s highest court announcing that it would consider the social-media giant’s appeal — a decision that could affect other Big Tech lawsuits. The High Court of Australia said it would hear Meta’s appeal against the privacy lawsuit being brought against it by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, marking the first time that a jurisdictional challenge in Australian Big Tech cases will be heard by the High Court.Meta Platforms’ campaign to undermine an Australian privacy lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica affair received a boost today, with the country’s highest court announcing that it would consider the social-media giant’s appeal — a decision that could affect other Big Tech cases before the courts....

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