Cambridge Analytica -- which has since shut down -- had collected and exploited, without users' consent, the personal data of 87 million Facebook users, to which the platform had given it access.
WASHINGTON - Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica, to access users' private data.
According to a document filed Friday in a San Francisco court, Facebook says it is submitting a draft "agreement in principle" and has requested a stay of proceedings for 60 days to finalise it.When asked by AFP, Facebook said late Saturday night they had "no comment to share at this time." The deal comes as Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who announced her resignation in June, were due to testify in court in September as part of the scandal.
Cambridge Analytica -- which has since shut down -- had collected and exploited, without their consent, the personal data of 87 million Facebook users, to which the platform had given it access.In 2019, federal authorities fined Facebook $5 billion for misleading its users and imposed independent oversight of its personal data management.
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, Facebook has removed access to its data from thousands of apps suspected of abusing it, restricted the amount of information available to developers, and made it easier for users to calibrate restrictions on personal data sharing.
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