Technology,
Data Privacy
Oct. 20, 2023
Meta seeks to end claim it misled users on location setting
Meta denied any wrongdoing and argued that the plaintiffs dropped their charge of invasion of privacy because the court ruled they had no expectation of privacy for general and imprecise predictions of their location.
Meta Platforms and its Facebook users asked a judge Thursday for final approval of a $37.5 million settlement to resolve claims that Facebook explicitly promised to not gather location data if users turned off the location setting on their devices, but then inferred people’s locations based on their IP addresses.
The attorneys asked for 25% of the settlement, or almost $9.4 million, in fees.
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