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Facebook reaches tentative settlement in Cambridge Analytica scandal

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facebook a preliminary amicable agreement was reached on a claim against him for damages for the admission of third parties, including Cambridge Analytics, access to the user’s personal data.

According to a court document filed Friday in a San Francisco court, facebook he stated that he was preparing an “agreement in principle” and asked for a stay of proceedings for 60 days “in order to terminate the agreement in writing and appear in court”.

The social network did not indicate either the amount or the time frame with which it would consider this class action lawsuit.

When asked Target -matrix facebook- did not answer.

Endless Scandal

Deal closed like Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Targetand CEO Sheryl Sandberg, who stepped down last June after 14 years with the company, were called to testify in court in September last year in the case.

In a process that began in 2018, users facebook accused the social network of violating privacy protection rules by transferring their data to third parties, including Cambridge Analyticsassociated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Cambridge Analyticswhich ceased operations as of that date, collected and used without consent the data of 87 million users facebook through access provided by the platform.

The information obtained could be used to develop software to influence American voters in favor of Trump.

In July 2019, federal authorities imposed sanctions facebook with a $5,000 million fine for “misleading” its users and imposing independent oversight of personal data management.

Ever since the scandal broke Cambridge Analytics, Facebook It revokes access to your data for thousands of apps, restricts developer access to information in general, and makes it easier for users to set permissions to share personal data. (AFP)

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