Four years after the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal was first revealed, its aftermath continues to have an impact. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the social media platform of allowing Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to access users’ private information without their consent. This settlement, which is the largest ever in a US data privacy class action and the most Meta has ever paid to resolve a class-action lawsuit, resolves user claims that Facebook violated federal and state laws by allowing its preferred vendors and partners to harvest personal data without consent.
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