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  • To settle a four year long legal battle, Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725M in a class action lawsuit, accusing Facebook of providing Cambridge Analytica and other parties to access private information of users.
  • The data of 87M users was used to sway voters for Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election. Since then, Meta has implemented a comprehensive privacy program due to a global outcry. In 2019 Facebook also paid out a $5B privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, and a $100M settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading its users.
  • If the judge approves this settlement, it will cover 250 to 280M Facebook users and the compensation will depend on how many people submit valid claims.

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This settlement 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.

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