HOW FACEBOOK USERS IN PAST 16 YEARS MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR MONEY SETTLEMENT FOR PRIVACY RIGHTS VIOLATIONS! (1046 hits)
For Immediate Release From The Washington Post!
Have you used Facebook in the past 16 years? You may qualify for payment.
If you’ve used Facebook in the United States during the past 16 years, you may be among tens of millions of users eligible to submit a claim for payment from the social media giant, according to a recently launched class-action settlement website.
Tech is not your friend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter. Current or former Facebook users can now file for compensation as part of the $725 million settlement reached in a lawsuit that alleged the social media company, owned by Meta, shared users’ data without their consent.
News in 2018 that the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had taken data from up to 87 million Facebook users through a personality quiz app sparked the lawsuit. It grew to encompass several cases — which were consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2018 — and address broader concerns about the company’s data privacy practices. Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook granted third parties access to users’ content and information without their consent and failed to monitor how it was used. Meta has denied any wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement in December to avoid the costs and risks of continuing the case.
The agreement was given a preliminary okay by a federal judge at the end of March. A final approval hearing is set for September.
In December, Keller Rohrback, one of the law firms representing the plaintiffs, called the agreement “the largest settlement ever of a privacy class action in the United States.” Meta said the settlement was “in the best interest of our community and shareholders,” and that the company has “revamped our approach to privacy.”
