[askvictor]

We (Australia) have no enforceable privacy legislation. The choice to single out Meta is probably political, though could also be about scale, and being a huge foreign company with deep pockets.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

>[...]personal information of some Australian Facebook users was disclosed to the This is Your Digital Life app in breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The information was exposed to the risk of disclosure to Cambridge Analytica and other third parties, and risked being used for political profiling purposes. [...]

The relevant law had been in force for two decades before facebook ever became relevant.

[xyzzy123]

I think this is the first actual settlement in the 20 years those rules have been on the books?

[ajdlinux]

Here's a few more: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-assessments-and-deci...

[xyzzy123]

Thank you for the correction there have been way more of these than I thought.

It seems they are referring to this as a "landmark" ruling because it's the first one with a "payout" condition.

[bigfatkitten]

It's not the first but they are extremely rare.