Final OK Given To ‘Cosmetic’ Settlement Of Facebook ‘View As’ Privacy Suit

Mealey's (May 10, 2021, 11:31 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Characterizing the settlement between Facebook Inc. and the last remaining plaintiff in a privacy class action against the social network as merely “cosmetic” and having achieved “limited success” in the original claims over a data breach via Facebook’s “view as” feature, a California federal judge on May 6 nevertheless found the security improvements required by the agreement to be sufficient to merit final approval....