{"id":1625201,"date":"2022-08-29T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625201"},"modified":"2022-08-29T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:48:51","slug":"facebook-agrees-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-data-privacy-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-agrees-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-data-privacy-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Agrees to Settle Cambridge Analytica Data Privacy Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-agrees-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-data-privacy-suit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Meta\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a> has agreed in principle to settle a four-year-old lawsuit that alleges the platform inappropriately shared user data with third parties including Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>A joint stipulation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22267530-show_temp-6?responsive=0&amp;title=1&amp;onlyshoworg=1\">pdf<\/a>) filed in San Francisco District Court Friday disclosed the preliminary settlement while giving no financial terms or details of the agreement. Lawyers for the plaintiffs and Facebook said additional time is needed to proceed with the latest developments, asking the judge to put the class action on hold for 60 days to allow both parties to \u201cfinalize a written settlement agreement and present to the Court for preliminary approval,\u201d according to the papers.<\/p>\n<p>The new filing comes a month after lawyers for both sides agreed that attorneys can depose Meta CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> next month for six hours of questioning by plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers, as part of the lawsuit, according to a July 19 filing (<a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/xmvjodeyxpr\/Meta%20Case%20Management%20Statement.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It shows Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Meta, and Javier Olivan, the company\u2019s chief growth officer who will replace Sandberg, will also be questioned for five hours and three hours respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2018, Facebook users sued the company after finding it allegedly breached consumer privacy laws in 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/facebook-says-data-leak-hit-87-million-users_2485413.html\">failing<\/a> to safeguard the data of 87 million users from flowing to the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, along with a series of data privacy issues.<\/p>\n<p>Users also complained that Facebook misled them about how their data will be used when allowing thousands of \u201cpreferred\u201d outsiders such as Airbnb, Lyft, and Netflix to gain access.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for more details regarding the settlement. The company said in 2019 its privacy practices are consistent with its disclosures and \u201cdo not support any legal claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary settlement came a year after a separate 2021 lawsuit that claimed Facebook overpaid the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a multi-billion-dollar settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The company executives agreed to pay\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/facebook-investor-company-paid-5-billion-to-ftc-as-quid-pro-quo-to-shield-zuckerberg_4011675.html\">$5 billion to the FTC<\/a> in a bid to shield Zuckerberg \u201cfrom being named in the FTC\u2019s complaint, made subject to personal liability, or even required to sit for a deposition,\u201d according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-rita-li\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Rita Li\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rita Li is a reporter with The Epoch Times, focusing on U.S. and China-related topics. She began writing for the Chinese-language edition in 2018.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s Facebook has agreed in principle to settle a four-year-old lawsuit that alleges the platform inappropriately shared user data with third parties including Cambridge Analytica.A joint stipulation (pdf) filed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}