Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMeta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a long-running data privacy lawsuit over its use of cookies in 2010-11 to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.The settlement was submitted for approval late Monday in the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of California. The agreement is subject to court approval.If finalized, it stands to rank as one of top 10 largest data privacy settlements in U.S.
history — although it’s dwarfed by Facebook’s $650 million class-action litigation settlement approved last year, a case in which the tech giant was alleged to have violated users’ privacy via its photo-tagging feature that used its now-defunct facial-recognition system.
As part of the settlement entered Feb. 14, Facebook agreed to sequester and delete all the data at issue. Filed in 2012, the case centered on Facebook’s use of proprietary browser plug-ins to track users’ visits to third-party sites.
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