Going their separate ways. After five years of marriage, Josh Flagg and Bobby Boyd have called it quits.
15.02.2022 - 18:12 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMeta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a long-running data privacy lawsuit over its use of cookies in 2010-11 to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.The settlement was submitted for approval late Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
The agreement is subject to court approval.If finalized, it stands to rank as one of top 10 largest data privacy settlements in U.S. history — although it’s dwarfed by Facebook’s $650 million class-action litigation settlement approved last year, a case in which the tech giant was alleged to have violated users’ privacy via its photo-tagging feature that used its now-defunct facial-recognition system.
As part of the settlement entered Feb. 14, Facebook agreed to sequester and delete all the data at issue.
Filed in 2012, the case centered on Facebook’s use of proprietary browser plug-ins to track users’ visits to third-party sites. Facebook obtained consent to track subscribers while logged in but promised to stop the tracking once the subscriber logged out — which, according to the class-action suit, was not the case.Asked for comment, a Meta spokesperson said, “Reaching a settlement in this case, which is more than a decade old, is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders and we’re glad to move past this issue.”Facebook had prevailed in the case three times in trial court over the span of seven years before it went to the the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In a 2020 opinion on the litigation, the 9th Circuit held that the unlawful copying and monetization of personal data creates “economic harm,” even if the value of the data in
.Going their separate ways. After five years of marriage, Josh Flagg and Bobby Boyd have called it quits.
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Rust production team.On October 21 last year, Baldwin is alleged to have discharged a prop firearm during rehearsal on set at Bonanza Creed Ranch in New Mexico which injured director Joel Souza and killed Hutchins.At a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday (February 15), lawyers for the Hutchins family announced they had filed a lawsuit against Baldwin and “others who are responsible for the safety on set, and whose reckless behaviour and cost-cutting led to the senseless, tragic death of Halyna Hutchins”.Names mentioned in the lawsuit (via Deadline) include actor and producer Baldwin, producers Ryan Smith, Allen Cheney, Nathan Klingher, Ryan Winterstern, Anjul Nigam, Matthew DelPiano, and Emily Salveson. Armourers Hannah Gutierrez Reed and Seth Kenney are also named, alongside crew members Sarah Zachry, Dave Halls, Gabrielle Pickle and others.The lawsuit claims the Rust production team “disregarded at least 15 Industry Standards” of on-set safety.
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