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Meta wins preliminary approval from US judge of record $725 million privacy settlement

By Mike Swift ( March 29, 2023, 20:13 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms’ agreement to pay a record $725 million to settle class-action litigation over its sharing of user data with apps on the Facebook platform won preliminary approval from a federal judge in San Francisco today, keeping the largest US private data-protection settlement on track for final approval. The suit over the former Facebook's policy of granting broad access to the personal data of its users to third-party apps on its platform was filed in 2018, amid the global privacy outcry over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta Platforms’ agreement to pay a record $725 million to settle class-action litigation over its sharing of user data with apps on the Facebook platform won preliminary approval from a federal judge in San Francisco today, keeping the largest US private data-protection settlement on track for final approval....

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