In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion after finding that it failed to comply with a 2012 agreement with the FTC to protect users’ data. In the current lawsuit, which followed the Cambridge Analytica breach, Meta was not a defendant: the plaintiffs wanted the directors to pay out of their own pockets.
Tom Hals reports:
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O) agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.
The parties did not disclose details of the settlement and defense lawyers did not address the judge, Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. McCormick adjourned the trial just as it was to enter its second day and she congratulated the parties.
Read more at Reuters.