Settlement Announced In Class Action Over Facebook Data Scraping

Mealey's (March 16, 2022, 7:19 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a March 3 filing, Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) and a group of Android phone users announced that they had “reached a settlement in principle of the privacy and fraud putative class claims over the social network’s now-discontinued practice of scraping call and text log information from certain Android phone models....