Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Lawsuit
“Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 2012 lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts. The settlement was submitted for approval Monday evening in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It is,” reports Makena Kelly in The Verge.
“Reached for comment, Meta spokesperson Drew Pusateri told The Verge, Reaching a settlement in this case, which is more than a decade old, is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders and we’re glad to move past this issue The lawsuit was dismissed in June 2017 after a federal judge said that the plaintiffs failed to show.”
