Meta’s Facebook agrees to settle data privacy lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking damages for allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data, a court filing said. It’s gone.
Financial terms were not disclosed in Friday’s filing, which asked the judge to withhold the class action for 60 days until lawyers for both the claimants and Facebook finalized a written settlement.
The four-year-old lawsuit alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing users’ personal data with third parties, such as the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook has said that its privacy practices are in line with its disclosures and “does not support any legal claims”.
Facebook and its attorneys for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did not immediately respond to requests for more information about the settlement.
Of the two law firms representing the plaintiffs, Keller Rohrbach did not comment, while Blechmar Fontey and Auld declined to comment.
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