{"id":166095,"date":"2023-06-20T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-to-apply-for-your-share-of-facebooks-725-million-settlement-in-privacy-suit"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:22:27","slug":"how-to-apply-for-your-share-of-facebooks-725-million-settlement-in-privacy-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-to-apply-for-your-share-of-facebooks-725-million-settlement-in-privacy-suit","title":{"rendered":"How to apply for your share of Facebook\u2019s $725 million settlement in privacy suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-apply-for-your-share-of-facebooks-725-million-settlement-in-privacy-suit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook users have until August to claim their share of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/23\/facebook-parent-meta-agrees-to-pay-725-million-to-settle-privacy-lawsuit-prompted-by-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html\">$725 million class-action settlement<\/a> of a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by the social media company, a <a href=\"https:\/\/facebookuserprivacysettlement.com\/#submit-claim\" target=\"_blank\">new website<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was prompted in 2018 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/04\/facebook-updates-the-number-of-users-impacted-by-cambridge-analytica-leak-to-87-million-.html\">Facebook disclosed<\/a> that the information of 87 million users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>People who had an active U.S. Facebook account between May 2007 and December 2022 have until Aug. 25 to <a href=\"https:\/\/facebookuserprivacysettlement.com\/#submit-claim\" target=\"_blank\">enter a claim<\/a>. Individual settlement payments haven\u2019t yet been established because payouts depend on how many users submit claims and how long each user maintained a Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users have until August to claim their share of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by the social media company, a new website reveals. The lawsuit was prompted in 2018 after Facebook disclosed that the information of 87 million users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. People who had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}