Friday Is Last Day For Facebook Users To File A Claim In $725 Million Settlement. Here's How.

CBS San Francisco

August 25, 2023

Today is the last day for anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years to get a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations.

The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their information with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.

Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website, set up to pay out money to the social network's users.

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