India, Oct. 23 -- A New Mexico judge's order that Meta pay $25 billion for deceiving Facebook users about their privacy is the heaviest penalty the company has faced. The ruling was blunt: "Facebook promised users that they controlled their data. This was false." Meta will appeal. But the case revives the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from about 87 million Facebook profiles was harvested to target voters in the 2016 US election. That scandal was the starkest illustration of surveillance capitalism, the business of tracking people's clicks, purchases and movements and selling predictions of how they will behave. The world has drifted deeper into it since, as apps and devices collect more than ever and the promise of user contr...