Axios reports:
Facebook parent company Meta has reached a $37.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that accused the company of violating user privacy by tracking location data through smartphones without asking users to do so.
Meta has faced a number of legal challenges in recent years, and recently reached a separate $90 million settlement over location tracking.
The new settlement resolves accusations that Facebook used IP addresses to determine users’ locations, despite those users turning off location services, per Bloomberg Law.
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So that’s, what, less than a penny per user?
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— Axios (@axios) August 23, 2022