Objector To 9th Circuit: Facebook Message-Scanning Settlement Benefits Counsel

Mealey's (January 29, 2018, 9:23 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The $3.89 million settlement of a class action over Facebook Inc.’s practice of scanning users’ private messages (PMs) is unfair, an objecting class member tells the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Jan. 25 brief seeking reversal of the settlement’s approval, because most of the award goes to class counsel rather than class members (Matthew Campbell, et al. v. Facebook Inc., et al., No. 17-16873, 9th Cir.)....