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Meta Platforms has agreed to pay a record $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Facebook users who alleged that the company allowed third parties to access their personal data.
The UK research firm Cambridge Analytica, whose clients included former president Donald Trump, was the most prominent example of what the complaint described as a broad-scale privacy lapse. In 2018, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica gained improper access to the personal information of some 87 million Facebook accounts.
The case was filed U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Vince Chhabria must approve the settlement.
The case was an embarrassing episode for Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who was brought before Congress to answer questions about data security. It followed more than a year of intense media coverage of how Trump used social media (with an assist from Russia) to upset Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Some advertisers withdrew from Facebook amid the Cambridge Analytica controversy.
“After more than four years of intensive litigation, the Named Plaintiffs have achieved anextraordinary outcome on behalf of the Class. The proposed Settlement … is thelargest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paidto resolve a private class action,” wrote attorneys for the plaintiffs in their motion to certify the settlement.
“The amount of the recovery is particularly striking given that Facebook argued that its users consented to the practices at issue, and that the class suffered no actual damages. Plaintiffs dispute these characterizations, but acknowledge that they faced tremendous risks in this novel and
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