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Meta to pay $90 million to settle decade-old data privacy lawsuit

By Christopher Hutton
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Meta to pay $90 million to settle decade-old data privacy lawsuit

Meta, the recently renamed parent company of Facebook, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old data privacy lawsuit.

The lawsuit, which was settled in the Northern District of California on Monday, dealt with Facebook’s use of website cookies between 2010 and 2011 tracking user activity, even while users were off Facebook.

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