Meta agrees to pay out $90million to settle lawsuit claiming it violated privacy – Daily Mail

Meta has agreed to pay out $90 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated privacy by tracking its users on the internet even after they had logged off from Facebook.The decade-long class action lawsuit involved claims the Facebook ‘Like’ button plug-in, when placed on other websites, could track users’ activity away from the social media platform even if they did not interact with the plug-ins.This was done through the use of cookies, which tracked things such as websites users visited, interactions with those websites and the items they viewed or purchased, according to court documents.As part of the proposed settlement, which must still be approved by a judge, Facebook’s parent company Meta – led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg- has agreed to delete all the data it ‘wrongfully collected’ during the period between 2010 and 2011.The company, which posted profits of $39.37 billion in 2021, will pay $90 million to users who filed a claim, after lawyer fees are deducted. It was not immediately clear how that would be distributed to the claimants.The agreement was filed Monday in a California court and if approved by a judge would put to rest one of the series of suits alleging the social…
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