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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chelsea Ritschel

BIZARRE: Facebook users could get settlement cash as meta pays out - What They Never Told You

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Facebook users who had an account at any point from May 2007 to December 2022 can now apply for their share of parent company Meta’s $725m privacy settlement.

Meta agreed to the payment in December following a four-year class action lawsuit that accused the tech company of allowing millions of its users’ personal information to be accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

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