Thursday, 13 April, 2023

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, settles a decade-old data-privacy case

<p>Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to resolve a ten-year class action lawsuit over the firm&#39;s usage of &quot;cookies&quot; in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they signed off the Facebook platform. Meta has promised to delete all of the data it &quot;wrongfully gathered&quot; during that time as part of the proposed settlement. In addition, the corporation, which made $39.37b in earnings in 2021, would pay $90m to users who registered a claim.</p>