Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

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Meta's Platforms has reached an agreement to settle the consumer lawsuits brought as a result of Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized harvesting of user data – an outcome that means Facebook execs won't be required to testify in court.

A filing [PDF] dated August 26 requested that judge Vince Chhabria put the class action on hold for sixty days while parties finalize a written settlement. The amount of the settlement on the four-year-old lawsuit remains undisclosed.

The lawsuit, brought by a group of users, alleges that UK-based Cambridge Analytica created a Facebook app called "This Is Your Digital Life" that was downloaded 300,000 times and harvested users' data. The app also accessed data describing users' Facebook Friends, potentially accessing personal information of 80 million-plus users.
 

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I read elsewhere that *uckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg were getting close to having to appear in court to explain Fakebooks actions during this scandal, it seems that they paid up rather than have to swear an oath promising to tell the truth. What a surprise! I was looking forward to seeing these slimeballs squirm at the very least.
 

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I was looking forward to seeing these slimeballs squirm at the very least.
They have. For example Marks painful long excuse tour in the US senate back in 2018 , and he was even up for a vote to step down as board chairman of Facebook in 2019. Alexander Nixs ( Cambridge Analyticas CEO ) hearing and attempt on a statement in the UK was entertaining.

For those that perhaps missed out where and why it started:
 

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