两家科技巨头在美国都遭遇了法律纠纷，这些纠纷源于它们在用户安全与隐私问题上误导消费者的行为：Facebook被陪审团判定违法；TikTok则同意支付1亿美元的和解金。
Two technology giants have faced legal setbacks involving cases over misleading consumers about user safety and privacy in the United States, with Facebook found liable by a jury and TikTok agreeing to pay a $100m settlement.
周五，新墨西哥州的陪审团认定Facebook违反了43项州消费者保护法规。与此同时，在同一天，TikTok及其中国母公司字节跳动（ByteDance）在阿拉巴马州即将开庭审理之前，同意与该州政府达成首起和解协议。
Facebook was found to have violated 43 million state consumer protection laws by a jury in New Mexico on Friday. Meanwhile, on the same day, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, agreed to its first-ever settlement with a state just days before its scheduled trial in Alabama.
阿拉巴马州总检察长办公室指控TikTok故意设计其平台以诱导用户产生依赖性，并在用户安全问题上误导消费者。此次和解正值TikTok在全国范围内面临类似诉讼之际。
TikTok was accused by the Alabama attorney general’s office of intentionally designing the platform to be addictive and misleading consumers about its safety. The settlement comes as the social media company battles similar claims nationwide.
Facebook曾卷入“剑桥分析公司”（Cambridge Analytica）丑闻：该公司被指控通过第三方性格测试收集了约8700万用户的个人信息，并将这些数据出售给一家政治咨询公司，用于特朗普2016年竞选活动的目标营销。现已倒闭的剑桥分析公司利用这些数据协助特朗普的竞选活动。
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook’s trial centred on claims that the company, owned by Meta, misled users about a data breach, harvesting data from about 87 million profiles through a third-party personality quiz and selling it to a political consulting firm to create targeted s. The now-defunct firm, Cambridge Analytica used the data to help US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign bid intended to work with a pro-Brexit group.
新墨西哥州的陪审团认定，这家总部位于加州的社交媒体公司在该丑闻发生后，对有关第三方数据收集行为的调查进行了隐瞒，从而欺骗了公众。
Jurors in New Mexico found the California-based social media company had deceived the public about investigations into third parties that harvest user data following the scandal.
Meta公司首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）在芝加哥举行的Facebook社区峰会上发表了讲话。2018年3月22日，扎克伯格在一场与数据隐私相关的丑闻之后罕见地接受了媒体采访。[ 者的重大胜利，它让全球最大的科技公司之一为其不当行为负责。”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during preparation for the Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago. Zuckerberg embarked on a rare media mini-blitz on March 22, 2018, in the wake of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm [Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo]“The verdict marks a significant victory for New Mexico consumers and holds one of the world’s largest technology companies accountable for its conduct,” the state’s Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday.
陪审团还发现，Facebook在保护新墨西哥州超过200万居民的数据方面发布了虚假声明。
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during preparation for the Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago. Zuckerberg embarked on a rare media mini-blitz on March 22, 2018, in the wake of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm [Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo]“The verdict marks a significant victory for New Mexico consumers and holds one of the world’s largest technology companies accountable for its conduct,” the state’s Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday.
“我们不同意这一裁决，并将继续捍卫自己的权益，反对任何试图歪曲我们事实的行为，”Meta公司的发言人亚历克斯·布尔戈斯（Alex Burgos）在给美联社（The Associated Press）的电子邮件中表示。
Jurors also found Facebook published deceptive statements about protecting the data of New Mexico’s entire population of more than two million. “We disagree with the verdict and will continue to defend ourselves against efforts to distort our record,” said Alex Burgos, a spokesperson for Meta, in an email to The Associated Press news agency.
这一裁决是在今年8月达成的一项和解协议之后作出的。根据该协议，Meta公司同意就涉及儿童安全问题的诉讼支付180亿美元。新墨西哥州是唯一一个就剑桥分析公司（Cambridge Analytica）的数据隐私泄露事件提起诉讼的州；该和解协议中包含的条款使Meta公司免除了与此丑闻相关的未来法律责任。
The verdict follows an August settlement in which Meta agreed to pay $18bn over a lawsuit involving child safety issues. New Mexico is the only state to pursue a case over the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, as an agreement buried within the 130-page settlement released Meta from future liability related to the scandal.
TikTok与青少年心理健康：去年，该州的司法部长史蒂夫·马歇尔（Steve Marshall）提起了诉讼，指控TikTok的算法向年轻用户推送越来越多暴力内容，导致青少年心理健康危机，并使相关急诊就诊人数急剧增加。
TikTok and youth mental health In the lawsuit filed last year by the state’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, Alabama claimed the social media app’s algorithm pushed increasingly violent content to young users, contributing to a teen mental health crisis and causing related emergency room visits to “skyrocket”.
该州还指责TikTok谎称自己限制了不当内容的传播，从而让该应用在应用商店中被评为“适合青少年使用”的安全等级，并误导公众关于中国政府获取美国用户数据的情况。
The state also accused TikTok of falsely claiming that it limits access to inappropriate content to have the app rated safe for teens in app stores and misleading the public about the Chinese government’s access to US users’ data.
根据阿拉巴马州司法部的说法，根据该和解协议，该州将在45天内至少获得1亿美元；如果满足某些条件，还有可能获得高达3亿美元的资金。
According to the Alabama attorney general’s office, the state will receive a minimum of $100m due within 45 days under the settlement, with the potential to receive up to $300m if certain conditions are met.
和解协议的具体内容：在和解协议中，TikTok同意实施每日使用时间限制（每天最多使用2小时），使用15分钟后应用会自动暂停，并加强对用户年龄的验证。
The TikTok app icon on a smartphone [File: Dado Ruvic/Reuters] In the settlement, TikTok agreed to implement a two-hour daily time limit, pause after 15 minutes of use and improve age checks for users.
目前，至少还有27个州以及华盛顿特区也提出了类似的诉讼。此前，TikTok曾与美国司法部就违反联邦儿童隐私法的指控达成过4亿美元的和解协议。
At least 27 other states and Washington, DC, have also sued over similar claims. TikTok previously reached a $400m settlement with the US Department of Justice over allegations that the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.