Facebook’s parent company Meta agreed to a $725 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
The agreement, first reported by Reuters earlier today, comes nearly four months after news broke that Meta had proposed a settlement in the Northern District of California, where the suit was originally filed four years ago. In the years since, Meta has fought back against the lawsuit, which consolidated complaints from multiple Facebook users, arguing that those who voluntarily joined the social network should have no real expectation of privacy — an assertion that the judge overseeing the case in 2019 called “so wrong.”
