Facebook Settles Decade-Old, $90 Million Lawsuit Alleging It Tracked Users’ Data Without Consent

The parent company of Facebook settled a decade-old privacy lawsuit related to protecting privacy on the Big Tech platform.

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Meta Inc. filed a preliminary settlement with plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit dating back to 2010 and 2011, which said that Facebook abused its “cookies” policy and tracked users even after they logged off the platform. Facebook agreed to sequester and delete data that was “wrongfully collected” during that time and to pay $90 million to affected users who filed a claim in the lawsuit, after legal fees are deducted.

The lawsuit alleged that Facebook got consent from their users to track their information while they were using the social media network and promised to stop tracking that data once a user logged off the platform. But Facebook allegedly continued to track their users’ browsing data, even after the users logged off. CNN added that the lawsuit stemmed from a 2010 update to Facebook’s software called “Open Graph.” The update included a “like” button plug-in for sites around the internet allowing Facebook users to “like” web pages outside of Facebook and share those pages with people in their friend networks. But court documents alleged, via CNN, that that plug-in allowed Facebook to collect data on users’ activity on those websites, including what sites they visited, any items they purchased, and interactions they had with the site, regardless of whether or not they used the “like button.” (Read more from “Facebook Settles Decade-Old, $90 Million Lawsuit Alleging It Tracked Users’ Data Without Consent” HERE)

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