More than a year after a landmark $650 million Facebook privacy settlement was approved, checks for $397 each may finally be arriving for nearly 1.6 million Illinois users of the social media platform. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Hawaii issued a ruling Thursday upholdi...
The reactions, shared on Twitter, range from delight (after all, who doesn’t like free money?) to bemusement. As it turns out, the checks are part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Facebook’s use of its users’ names and faces in “Sponsored Story” ads without the...
On its website, the Facebook settlement administrator said the third and final payment went out beginning Tuesday, and it will take about two weeks to finish mailing the checks and processing the electronic payments. Those expecting the third check who don't receive it are being asked to wait...
Checks could be sent out to class members within two months, though an appeal over the decision could still be made, prolonging the case. The settlement news arrives at a time when Facebook isattacking Appleover its looming privacy-related changes. In concern for a potential loss of ...
The Federal Trade Commission formally announced its $5 billion settlement with Facebook, the culmination of a years-long investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other privacy breaches.
On the second front, UPI Lite, which was launched in September 2023, already allows offline money transfers. As long as both parties have LITE X wallets, users can send up to Rs. 500 to each other, with the settlement between the two banks occurring later. ...
Instead, she checks Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook parent company Meta, about five or six times a day. Then there's TikTok, of course, where she spends about an hour each day scrolling, letting the algorithm find things "I didn't even know I was interested in." ...