Preliminary Approval Granted To Settlement In Meta Data-Scraping Class Action

(August 25, 2022, 12:11 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Five months after a group of Facebook users and Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) announced that they had reached a settlement of a consolidated class action charging the social network operator with computer fraud and privacy violations, a California federal judge on Aug. 3 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary approval of the settlement under which Meta attested that it had ceased the complained of practice of scraping contact information from certain Android phone users....