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Meta privacy settlement approved

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld a California federal court’s approval of a $90 million settlement between Meta Platforms and a class of its users, who say Meta tracked their online activities without consent. The court properly applied the percentage-of-the-fund method in approving the proposed attorney fees of $26.1 million.

Read the ruling here.

Read about another settlement between Meta and its users here.

Read about a third privacy clash between Meta and users here.

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