According to court filings, Facebook filed a draft “settlement in principle” in a San Francisco court on Friday (local time), requesting a 60-day stay to draft the agreement.
The company does not name a compensation amount or other terms of the planned agreement in the application. The Facebook parent company Meta initially did not respond to a request from the AFP news agency on Saturday.
87 million user data evaluated
Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the online network in 2018 for violating privacy rules because Facebook shared personal user data with Cambridge Analytica and others. The British consulting firm, which no longer exists, evaluated the data of around 87 million Facebook users. The results were used, among other things, for the Brexit campaign before the referendum on Britain’s exit from the EU in 2016 and for US President Donald Trump’s election campaign.
In July 2019, US federal authorities fined Facebook $5 billion for “deceiving” its users. They also commissioned an independent control body to check Facebook’s handling of personal data. In September, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and outgoing CEO Sheryl Sandberg are to be questioned by the US judiciary about the scandal.
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has blocked access to its data for thousands of apps on suspicion of abuse and restricted the amount of data accessible to developers. In addition, it is now easier for users to restrict the sharing of their data.
Source: Nachrichten
