Australia's privacy regulator announced on Tuesday that Meta Platforms has agreed to pay 50 million Australian Dollars (31.85 million USD) in settlement to end a prolonged and costly legal battle stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is reported that the UK consulting firm Cambridge Analytica retained personal data of millions of Facebook users without permission, which was mainly used for political advertising involving Trump's initial victory in the USA presidential election and the Brexit campaign. The Australian Information Commissioner's Office accused that, as part of a broader scandal, some users' personal information was also disclosed to Facebook's personality testing application 'This is Your Digital Life.'