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Meta's record $725 million Cambridge Analytica settlement blessed by US court

By Mike Swift ( February 13, 2025, 20:19 GMT | Insight) -- Likely ending seven years of litigation over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that erupted in March 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed Meta Platforms' record $725 million class-action settlement of the case.Meta Platforms’ record $725 million settlement of a class action filed in the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018 was affirmed by a US appeals court today, likely drawing the curtain on seven years of private litigation....

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