Settlement Of Facebook ‘View As’ Privacy Class Action Preliminarily Approved

Mealey's (November 17, 2020, 11:45 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Eight months after a California federal judge declined to grant preliminary approval to a settlement of a negligence class action over a 2018 data breach related to Facebook Inc.’s “View As” feature, that same judge on Nov. 15 preliminarily approved the agreement, under which Facebook pledged to make security improvements, finding that the parties sufficiently addressed prior concerns related to compliance assessment monitoring and certain procedures for class members to object to the settlement (Stephen Adkins v. Facebook, Inc., No. 18-5982, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214006)....