Privacy, this is how Meta closed the case against Facebook
Facebook's parent company Meta has reached a $ 37.5 million deal to close a lawsuit accusing the company of violating user privacy by tracking location data via smartphone without asking for permission to do so.
And Meta (Facebook's parent company ) pays.
The company led by Mark Zuckerberg has reached a $ 37.5 million deal to close a lawsuit accusing Facebook of violating users' privacy by monitoring their movements through smartphones without authorization.
On Monday, the lawyers filed a preliminary settlement in federal court in San Francisco, but a judge's approval is required to resolve the class action.
Meta has faced a number of legal challenges in recent years. It recently reached a separate $ 90 million deal for the unauthorized takeover of the location , Axios recalls.
All the details.
THE CAUSE ON PRIVACY INFRINGEMENT BY FACEBOOK
The lawsuit, which began in November 2018, concerns allegations that Facebook violated California law and its privacy policy by collecting data from users who have disabled location services on their mobile devices.
Users said that while they didn't want to share their locations with Facebook, the company still inferred where they were from their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Not only. The company used this information to send them targeted advertising.
WHAT ZUCKERBERG SAID AT THE CONGRESS ABOUT THE LOCATION
In June 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress that the Menlo Park-based company uses location data "to help advertisers reach people in particular areas." For example, it said that users who dined at certain restaurants might receive posts from friends who also ate there or ads from businesses that wanted to provide services nearby.
THE AGREEMENT REACHED BY META
Now, the new deal resolves allegations that Facebook used IP addresses to determine users' location. Although those users have turned off Location Services.
In particular, the deal affects users who used Facebook in the United States after January 30, 2015, Reuters points out.
Finally, Meta denied the transgression, confirming the agreement reached.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/privacy-ecco-come-meta-ha-chiuso-la-causa-contro-facebook/ on Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:24:11 +0000.