Then you may be eligible for a portion of the $725 million settlement payment due to aclass action lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company. The lawsuit was based on Facebook's sharing of users' data without their consent. The 2018Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the personal in...
A lawsuit filed by the District of Columbia alleging that Facebook, Inc., violated the district's consumer protection law by failing to safeguard users' data has been dismissed by D.C. Superior Court. The 2018 lawsuit filed by the D.C. attorney general focused on the harvesting of user ...
16. Price v. Facebook, Inc. et al Facebook user Lauren Price filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica on March 20. Price accuses the defendants of unlawful business practices concerning personal data use and distribution. The lawsuit is asking for $500 million. ...
As internet companies get ready for a stringent new European data privacy law to begin, Facebook says it won't apply those regulations globally — for now, at least. The revelation comes from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who told Reuters that Facebook already complies with many parts of the law tha...
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In the wake of the scandal, a Facebook shareholder filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, which saw its market valuation plunge nearly $50 billion last week. The lawsuit said the social media giant “made materially false and misleading statements.” U.S. Stock Market Quotes Adver...
A Facebook user, Lauren Price of Maryland, filed a suit in San Jose on Tuesday on behalf of up to 50 million people whose data was used by Cambridge Analytica. It’s a class action lawsuit that claims Facebook had “absolute disregard” for her personal data, despite allegedly stating it...
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under pseudonyms to comply with a decade-old privacy law. The ruling, made last month but only now being announced, comes from the Berlin Regional Court and wasdetailed todayby the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (abbreviated from German as VZBV), which filed the lawsuit against Face...
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Facebook, accusing the social media giant of wide-ranging privacy violations. “Facebook’s consumers reasonably expect that Facebook will take appropriate steps to maintain and protect their data,” the lawsuit, which was announced on Wed...