Meta to Pay $90 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Data Privacy, Tracking – Business Insider

Meta will pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it kept tracking users after they logged off. The 2012 suit said Facebook used plug-ins and cookies to track visits to third-party websites containing “like” buttons. If approved, this would be one of the 10 biggest data privacy class action settlements ever. Loading Something is loading. Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old lawsuit alleging Facebook kept tracking users’ internet activity after they’d logged off of the platform.The proposed settlement was filed late Monday and still requires court approval. If approved, it would be one of the 10 biggest data-privacy class-action settlements ever, according to the document.The 2012 lawsuit alleges that, between April 2010 and September 2011, Facebook violated privacy and wiretapping laws by using plug-ins to store cookies tracking users’ visits to third-party websites that contained “like” buttons. The social media site had users’ permission to track them while they were logged in but promised to stop when they logged out.Besides the $90 million sum, which would be distributed among affected users, the settlement would require that Facebook delete data improperly collected on users through the use of this practice. Meta did not immediately respond…
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