The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has made a settlement offer in a long-running class action privacy complaint in the Northern District of California connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Reuters reports. The lawsuit, which has been tied down in court for four years, alleges that Facebook exchanged user data with the discredited UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica in violation of the law. According to Facebook, its privacy policies align with its disclosures and “do not support any legal claims” against them.
Facebook acknowledged that the outside data firm might have accessed data on up to 87 million users in 2018 when the scandal tanked the company’s stock. With them, Cambridge Analytica partnered with political candidates like former President Donald Trump to create psychographic profiles of voters built from the illegally obtained Facebook data. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was scheduled to testify in the case in September.
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