Final Approval Granted To Facebook Message-Scanning Class Action Settlement

Mealey's (August 22, 2017, 8:48 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — Four months after preliminarily approving settlement of a class action that accused Facebook Inc. of privacy violations related to its scanning of users’ private messages (PMs) for advertisement purposes, a California federal judge on Aug. 18 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for final judgment, deeming proposed incentive and attorney fee awards to be reasonable (Matthew Campbell, et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 4:13-cv-05996, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132624)....