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US Facebook Users To Receive Settlement Checks In $725 Million Data Privacy Case—Check If You Are Eligible

Millions of users of Meta Platforms‘ META Facebook in the U.S. are set to receive their long-awaited compensation for a data privacy breach that occurred over a decade. The distribution of the ...
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Researcher at center of Facebook data scandal points finger at former Cambridge Analytica employee

Dr. Aleksander Kogan says he is being used as a "scapegoat." Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher who collected information on millions of Americans through Facebook for Cambridge ...
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Zuckerberg faces Meta shareholders in $8 billion trial over 2018 Facebook data scandal

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the Meta CEO is accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that ...
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16 billion accounts suffer "the largest data breach" — Google, Facebook, Telegram, and more are susceptible to malicious attacks

To this end, none of the companies or services said to have been affected by the data breach have issued a statement confirming the CyberNews' damning report. However, it has since included ...
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Meta faces class action suit in Germany over 'intimate' user data

Consumer protection organizations are filing a class action lawsuit in Germany against the alleged use of "intimate" user ...
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Facebook taking steps to stop collecting sensitive data from apps after New York probe

New York regulators launched a probe after a 2019 Wall Street Journal article. New York regulators said in a new report that Facebook did little to enforce a policy that prevents it from collecting ...