Anyone Who Used Facebook In The Last 16 Years Can Now Get Settlement Money. Here's How.

MoneyWatch, CBS Los Angeles

July 25, 2023

Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations, as long as they fill out a claim before August 25.

However, two other deadlines are fast approaching: Users who want to opt out of the settlement must do so before July 26 at 11:59 Pacific time, while people may also file an objection to the settlement on or before July 26. People who opt out may want to keep their right to bring a separate legal action against Facebook, for instance.

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.

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