Find Out if You're Eligible for Part of the $90M Facebook Data Tracking Settlement – CNET

Facebook has agreed to a $90 million settlement stemming from a lawsuit accusing it of tracking users across other websites, and now people can file claims if they believe they were impacted. The plaintiffs in the case, Davis v. Facebook, claim the social-media giant was aware it violated privacy, communications and wiretap laws by tracking logged-out users, in breach of its own contract.In 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Facebook profiting from the sale of users’ data constituted a breach of privacy that caused economic harm. When the Supreme Court declined to review the case, settlement negotiations began. In June, a district court in California gave preliminary approval for the $90 million payout.Read on to find out what the class action lawsuit is all about, whether you’re eligible for a payout and how much recipients could receive (and when).What is Facebook accused of in the class action suit?The plaintiffs allege that Facebook tracked people’s activities on outside websites, even when they were signed out of their Facebook accounts, by installing cookies on users’ computers. In a 2011 suit filed in US District Court in San Jose, California, they claimed such monitoring violated the Federal Wiretap Act, the…
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