Facebook’s parent company Meta is to pay $90 million to end yet another case involving violations of Facebook users’ privacy.
The social network was accused of tracking its users’ online activities even after they logged out of the platform. Facebook wanted to collect data to show its ads to users more targeted.
The agreement provides 90 million for class action participants who can prove that they were affected by this technique. It concerns American users who were followed between 2010 and 2011.
Meta further intends to isolate and destroy any personal information so collected from these users. Meta further points out that this problem, in which users with cookies were also tracked outside of Facebook, has not been applied for a long time.
“Finding a solution to this file, more than ten years old, is in the interest of our community and our shareholders,” said a Meta spokesperson.
