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Facebook wins preliminary approval in 'View As' data breach litigation

By Mike Swift ( November 16, 2020, 20:48 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook's "View As" data breach appeared to be a major regulatory and litigation problem when the social media giant first acknowledged the breach in September 2018. Just over two years later, however, Facebook appears poised to escape a litigation minefield in the United States, as a federal judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement that would require a series of data security upgrades and oversight, but would avoid the company paying damages to plaintiffs.When Facebook announced in 2018 that hackers had exploited a software vulnerability to expose the personal information of tens of millions of users, regulators and politicians pounced on another data protection failure by the company just months after the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal broke....

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