Meta will pay $90 million to settle 10-year-old lawsuit against Facebook

Facebook was sued in 2012 for continuing to track users even after they logged out. What you need to know Facebook's parent company, Meta, has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy suit. The social networking giant was accused of following users online in 2010 and 2011 by using tracking cookies even when they were signed out of their accounts. The case was previously dismissed three times, but in 2020, a federal appeals court upheld the lawsuit. Privacy complaints appear to have become so common for Facebook in recent years that hearing the service pay large sums of money to settle lawsuits almost never sounds surprising. In 2020, the company paid $650 million to settle a lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology. Now, a decade-old privacy lawsuit will cost Facebook's parent company, Meta, $90 million (via Variety). The company has agreed to settle the class action suit filed back in 2012, accusing Facebook of tracking users on the web even after ...
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