Facebook agrees to settle privacy infringement lawsuit

Facebook has reached a preliminary settlement in a more than four-year US privacy breach lawsuit.
According to Vietnamplus , a document filed in a San Francisco court recently said that Facebook said it was drafting a "agreement in principle," and proposed to suspend the proceedings for 60 days to finalize. 

Facebook has reached a preliminary settlement in a more than four-year US privacy breach lawsuit in which Facebook is sued for damages for allowing third parties to access personal data. of the user.

According to a document filed in a San Francisco court on August 26, Facebook said it was drafting a "agreement in principle" and offered to suspend the proceedings for 60 days to finalize.

However, Facebook declined to disclose the amount or terms of the settlement in this class action.

The chairman of Meta - Facebook's "parent" company, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg and former CEO Sheryl Sandberg - who announced their resignation in June, are expected to appear in court next September related to the case. above.

According to Sports and Culture , in a lawsuit that began in 2018, Facebook users accused the social network of violating privacy rules by sharing their data with 3rd parties, including: British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Accordingly, Cambridge Analytica collected and exploited the personal data of 87 million users without permission. This information is suspected to have been used to develop software that benefited Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential election.

In 2019, US federal authorities also fined Facebook 5 billion USD for violating the privacy rights of users' personal data.