Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action for $725 million

Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the company’s decision to allow Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to access users’ personal data.

The proposal, if approved, would cap a legal dispute that began in 2018 when it became known that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics and advertising firm, to access the personal information of about 87 million users.

In a motion filed late Thursday in the U.S. …

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