Published 1 year ago

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

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The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign. The lawsuit had been seeking to be certified as a class action representing Facebook users.

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Times of India

Facebook agrees to pay $725 million to settle privacy suit

"The proposed settlement of $725,000,000 is the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a private class action," lawyers for the plaintiffs said in the filing.

1 year ago·India

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Associated Press News

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.

1 year ago·United States

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abc News

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica

1 year ago·United States

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