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If you've touched Facebook in the past 15 years or so, you may qualify for a tiny slice of the $725 million that the company must pay to settle a class action lawsuit from the Cambridge Analytics privacy scandal, It won't be much, and isn't a sure thing, but you could be eligible for a cash award of more than $500. The exact amount depends how many people apply. Key Takeaways You have until Aug. 25 to file a claim in the $725 million class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook.Your award could range between a few dollars and more than $500, depending on how many of 87 million eligible claimants file.You most likely won't see any money until the end of the year. Here's how the math works. From the total settlement with Facebook parent Meta, subtract 25% for lawyers' fees and $15,000 each for the eight named plaintiffs. That leaves $545 million to be divided evenly among all qualified claimants who file by the Aug.  » Read More

Facebook Lawsuit Settlement Claim: How to get your share of Meta's 725 million privacy settlement - Key dates, process REVEALEDPhoto : ET Now DigitalFacebook Lawsuit Settlement Claim: Facebook users can now claim their share of Meta’s whopping $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement pertains to several lawsuits that were brought against Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook, now Meta, by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources like advertisers. In December last year, the company agreed to settle, while rejecting any liability or wrongdoing. Now, a recently created class-action website states that anyone who was a Facebook user in the US between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive, may be eligible for a cash payment from a Class Action Settlement. It includes those who have since deleted their accounts. To do this, the users will have to visit Facebookuserprivacysettlement.com. There they will be asked to enter their name, address, email address, and confirming they lived in the US and were active on Facebook between the aforementioned dates.  » Read More

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): But the defining strategic insight of the modern Democratic Party is that you don't really need to convince anyone of anything. What matters is demographics. You need to import enough people from elsewhere, people who are financially dependent on you in order to live. That's the story of the state of California. That's why California changed. That's why Texas is changing. But it's also happening at the local level all over the country. Democrats have realized that they win the vote in virtually every major city. But the suburbs remain contested, and that matters because suburban voters elect school boards, and state legislators, and, of course, members of Congress. So if you want total control over the entire country, you need demographic change everywhere, including in the suburbs. This is a very obvious insight and Democrats have been on the case for quite a while.  ... If you wanted more Black home appraisers, why wouldn’t you start a program to train them? No. The only job training program this administration has gotten behind in two and a half years is getting Black people to sell more weed in the cities.  » Read More

Eid Mubarak to you and your family! The joyous festival Eid-Ul-Fitr is celebrated every year with great enthusiasm and positivity. It is one of the most important festivals of the Islam community across the world. Eid-Ul-Fitr also marks the end of the month of fasting for Muslims. Before Eid-Ul-Fitr, Muslims observe the month of Ramadan, in which they observe fasting from sunrise to sunset as a means of spirituality and self-reflection.This year, Eid-Ul-Fitr will be celebrated between April 21 to April 23, depending on the moon sighting.On the day of Eid-Ul-Fitr, Muslims observe the special day with a prayer. They also deck up in new clothes and also exchange gifts with their near and dear ones. On the day of Eid, many delicacies are prepared at home to celebrate the joyous festivals with family and friends. Delicious meals are prepared which include biryani, haleem, nihari, kebabs and seviyan. Kids are also given Eidi from the elders of the family, which refers to money and/or gifts as a token of blessing.Here are some beautiful messages,  » Read More

Have you used Facebook in the last 16 years? If so, you may be eligible to collect some cash from the social media giant as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging privacy violations.As CNBC reported Wednesday: Facebook users have until August to claim their share of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by the social media company, a new website reveals. The lawsuit was prompted in 2018 after Facebook disclosed that the information of 87 million users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. People who had an active U.S. Facebook account between May 2007 and December 2022 have until Aug. 25 to enter a claim. Individual settlement payments haven’t yet been established because payouts depend on how many users submit claims and how long each user maintained a Facebook account.Here’s the site where you can submit a claim. Let’s refresh your memory a bit and recollect how Facebook got to this point: Cambridge Analytica was a data-mining firm linked to Steve Bannon that was hired by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to conduct voter profiling and help target potential voters.  » Read More

Buy Nothing groups on Facebook are where people share things for free for others to pick up.  They are especially helpful for parents since kids outgrow stuff quickly.  Women are usually the ones posting the items, and men are doing the pickups.  Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Before Radie joined her local Buy Nothing group, the mom of three watched her husband bring bags full of old clothes to textile recycling or throw them in the trash, knowing that along with the pieces that had grown threadbare and tattered were items she loved and would have wanted to see go to someone who would understand their sentimental value. But once Radie, who prefers to use a nickname as a safety precaution due to her job as a therapist, found the hyperlocal Facebook group associated with the international movement devoted to exchanging goods for free within a participant's community,  » Read More

An alliance of the world’s most powerful law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Interpol and Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) have condemned Meta’s plans to encrypt direct messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, saying that doing so will weaken the ability to keep child users safe.The Virtual Global Taskforce, made up of 15 agencies, is chaired by the NCA and also includes Europol and the Australian federal police among its membership. The VGT has spoken out, it says, owing to the “impending design choices” by Meta, which it says could cause serious harm.The decision to encrypt direct messages on the platforms, which would prevent anyone other than the intended recipient being able to intercept the communications, “is an example of a purposeful design choice that degrades safety systems and weakens the ability to keep child users safe”, the alliance said.The VGT praised Meta’s work with the American National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which acts as a clearing house for reports on online child sexual abuse.  » Read More

Local News By CBS Baltimore Staff April 19, 2023 / 3:17 PM / CBS Baltimore CBS News Live CBS News Baltimore Live BALTIMORE — If you're in the U.S. and you've used Facebook in the last 16 years, you can now collect a settlement payout.The settlement, which totals $725 million, stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers.   The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.  Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25,  » Read More

If you have used Facebook in the United States in the last 16 years, you could be eligible to submit a claim for payment from the social media giant, according to a recently launched class-action settlement site.Americans who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, may be eligible for a cash payment from a $725 million settlement in connection with a lawsuit titled “Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation,” the site stated.The lawsuit alleged that Facebook shared the data of users without their consent.The settlement was recently reached between Facebook, Inc., now known as Meta Platforms, Inc., and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that had been pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.Facebook has denied violating any law but anyone who used the social media platform during the aforementioned date range is encouraged to submit a claim.Facebook users can submit a claim form online or download the claim form and mail it to the Settlement Administrator.  » Read More

Meta Platforms Inc. is set to start cutting jobs across the company on Wednesday as it restructures teams and works toward founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of greater efficiency this year.The Facebook parent company told managers that they should prepare for job cut announcements on Wednesday, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News. The memo indicates Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality Labs — which houses the firm’s virtual reality efforts and Quest hardware — will be affected. The move is part of a cost-cutting push that will eventually eliminate 10,000 positions at the company, as announced by Zuckerberg ... Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading: Learn About Bloomberg Law AI-powered legal analytics, workflow tools and premium legal & business news. Already a subscriber? Log in to keep reading or access research tools.  » Read More