Anyone in the US who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007 can now apply for their share of the US$725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay Is.
Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed personal information of millions of its users to be leaked to its feeds. Cambridge AnalyticaA firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
It’s unclear how much money individual users will get. The greater the number of people submitting valid claims, the less each payment is made because the money has to be divided among them.
To apply for settlement, users can fill out a form and submit it online, or print it and mail it.
The case began with revelations in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon, had made a payment. Facebook For accessing personal information of around 87 million users of the app developer platform. That data was used to target American voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in the election of Trump as the 45th president.
The furore over the revelations left a penitent Zuckerberg heckled by US lawmakers and urged people to delete his Facebook account.
Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people join and entertain themselves with rival services like TikTok, but the social network still boasts more than 2 billion users worldwide, including an estimated 250 million in the US.
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