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Title: Facebook Begins Sending Settlement Payments from Cambridge Analytica
Scandal Soon

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/14/0312...

"Facebook users who filed a claim in parent company Meta's $725 million
settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal may soon get a
payment," reports CNN, since "on August 27, the court ordered that settlement
benefits be distributed." It's been over two years since Facebook users were
able to file claims in Meta's December 2022 settlement. The class-action
lawsuit began after the social media giant said in 2018 that as many as 87
million Facebook users' private information was obtained by data analytics
firm Cambridge Analytica... Meta was accused of allowing Cambridge Analytica
and other third parties, including developers, advertisers and data brokers,
to access private information about Facebook users. The social media giant
was also accused of insufficiently managing third-party access to and use of
user data. Meta did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement. Following
the Cambridge Analytica incident, Facebook restricted third-party access to
user data and "developed more robust tools" to inform users about how data is
collected and shared, according to court documents... Any US Facebook user
who had an active account between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, was
eligible to file a claim, even if they have deleted the account. The deadline
to file was August 25, 2023. Almost 29 million claims were filed and about 18
million were validated as of September 2023, according to Meta's response in
a 2024 legal document... Payments will either be sent directly to the bank
account provided on the claim form, or via PayPal, a virtual prepaid
Mastercard, Venmo or Zelle. Unsuccessful or expired payments will receive a
"second chance email" to update the payment method.

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