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Judge tentatively OKs $725M Facebook settlement: How to apply for a payout
- gbolcer 3y agoThis seems like an elaborate scam. I never eliminated my facebook account, but I definitely stopped using them. I think the Cambridge Analytica abuse is the least of their privacy abuses.
- miked85 3y agoWhat part of it do you believe is a scam? Seems like a standard class action suit where I might get a few dollars five years from now.
- Magi604 3y ago>Only U.S. users are eligible for a payment. This is so unfair, I want my $1-$5 damnit!
- admn2 3y agoThere was one settlement in Illinois, I think it was Facebook as well, where each person who filled it out got $395.
- neaden 3y agoYeah, that was Facebook. That was $650 million for a single state though.
- incongruity 3y agoI believe that was the biometric data lawsuit? If so, I was a member of that settlement and while the initial promise was as high as $395 (that’s what made the news), the actual checks people got were much smaller - I just found a picture of mine - $30.61
- sigmar 3y agoThere were two checks the first one was $397 and then I think they had some left over so everyone that got the first one also got $30.61 edit: citation- https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-privacy-settlement-illinois-supplemental-payment-20230306-eku2fusjwzgx5i3w5grxai5xey-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-priv...
- Turing_Machine 3y agoThere have been at least two separate Facebook settlements (so far). The most recent one was indeed $30.61. The one from a year or two ago was (edit) $397, as another poster said.
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- achow 3y agoFB users in USA: ~250M, if half of them end up claiming then its $6/person (before expenses, lawyer fees etc.) In these kind of cases, only lawyers make a windfall.
- walrus01 3y agopeople who got checks from the equifax data breach also got about $6 or $7 each person.
- Eumenes 3y agoI got a $40 check from the Plaid settlement
- Tommstein 3y agoDidn't even know Plaid had already been sued, now I feel extra justified for shitlisting Cash App the other day when they tried to get me to use Plaid in order for them to deposit money into a bank account whose details they already had and into which they had already previously successfully deposited money.
- Eumenes 3y agoIt was via using Venmo, so yeah, same situation
- azemetre 3y agoThese kinds of cases are the only way for consumers to punish corporations, what else would you have them realistically do?
- mech987987 3y agoIt will successfully punish facebook (the payout will happen). It just won't reward individual consumers very much.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago>the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Did this read strange to anyone else? Did Trump really break people’s brains like this?
- d23 3y agoWhat about it is brain broken or incorrect?
- kid64 3y agoRead the rest of his posts, he's on Earth 2
- ChainOfFools 3y agoNothing is. Its just an opportunity to work "trump made u feel bad haha" into the thread. The whole point of supporting Trump for a lot of these people was simply the delightful thrill of having gained a pet bully that could inflict some form - any form - of grief on people they didn't like, with all the blowback going to the pet and none to themselves. The same motivation that drives rolling coal on EVs and brandishing assault rifles in public: addiction to petty displays of imagined power over others.
- kid64 3y agoAh, a visitor from the upside-down! Welcome, comrade. Please don't shoot me!
- yamtaddle 3y agoIt doesn't read weird at all. The CA incident had a ton of stories about it, that's brought in so the reader goes "oh, that stuff" and knows WTF the piece is about. It's the only case of this happening that more than a very, very small proportion of readers would be aware of.
- mittermayr 3y agoI have submitted my data, but while doing so, I wondered if I trust these guys any more with the data. This ends up as a CSV on some lawyer's laptop Downloads folder eventually.
- meepmorp 3y agoThen there’s another class action suit against the law firm, and so on. It’s lawyers all the way down.
- moi2388 3y agoCan anybody explain to me why stealing my data and illegally getting paid for sharing it with third parties means they only have to pay me $6? Or why fines never include at least the profit (let alone income) from illegal activities PLUS a fine?
- svachalek 3y agoThere’s only so hard you can slap a wrist, or it starts to hurt or something.
- faefox 3y agoBecause if companies that behaved badly were actually held accountable our economic system would collapse, and the people in power who benefit from it won't allow that to happen.
- theonemind 3y agoI think you can decline the $6 and start your own personal lawsuit for the same issue. But, IANAL.
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- jmclnx 3y agoSo, if I apply for this, Facebook will know my real name and address. I have not used it for years. But I think it is worth the $5 USD I will get to keep that information out of Facebook's hand.
- elil17 3y agoThe settlement administrator is different from Facebook.
- evolve2k 3y agoScrew people globally but in the end only required to compensate US residents. Sounds like a good deal for Meta/Facebook.
- jeroenhd 3y agoIt's an American lawsuit against an American company under American law. Of course that doesn't apply abroad. Anyone can try filing a similar lawsuit in their local jurisdiction, but there's no guarantee that you'll win if your country's laws are different.
- elil17 3y agoThis does not prevent them from being sued or fined in other countries. Probably just the first of many such cases around the world.
- exabrial 3y agoI can't wait for my share of the 50cents allocated to us from the generous lawyers
- tzs 3y agoIf you wanted more why didn't you sue Facebook yourself?
- blakesterz 3y agoThe site to submit claims ( https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/ https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/ ) is showing "connect.facebook.net" being blocked by Privacy Badger in my browser. I guess I shouldn't be surprised?
- kyawzazaw 3y agoKeeps getting "System Currently Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience, but the system is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Thank you."
- adrianmonk 3y agoWe really need a better system for knowing the authenticity of these settlement web sites. Right now we get some special web site that's like FooCompanyBarIssueSettlement.com, which is descriptive, but how do we know it's not some phishing site? The site itself always says it's the official site and gives a case number, but there's nothing stopping a fake site from doing those things. Right now we have to rely on it being reported in the media[1]. That's better than nothing, but why can't the courts (that approve the settlement) have a web site that links to these? Or, as a condition of the settlement, require the company (Facebook in this case) to link to it? I know lawyers are good at law, not IT security, and I realize this is how it's typically done, but it's still a very poor practice, and it needs to change. (In this particular case, it's also ironic because the case is about poor practices regarding data security!) --- [1] And this one has been, including very large news outlets, so I feel pretty confident it's legitimate.
- sigmar 3y agoI very much agree with this. Gmail seems to put every single class action suit email in my spam folder (probably because the domain that they come from are brand new, so understandable). Then the website always asks for a lot of personal information and sometimes bank routing numbers (!!). Maybe there could be subdomains on state gov't websites that are allocated for class action suits (tho that might still trigger spam detection)?
- JasserInicide 3y agoThis one at least has the option for a prepaid gift card
- the_only_law 3y agoSomething similar happened to me when I went to check the balance on a prepaid visa the other day. I got redirected to a bizzare URL and an ad riddled page. I had to do a couple of takes to make sure I was at the right place.
- chias 3y agoInterestingly, some time ago as part of my job I tested this out -- how effective is a fake breach settlement website / notification as a phishing vector? It turns out, to my surprise, not very. You can't harvest anything particularly juicy beyond basic PII without arousing a lot of suspicion, and as far as vectors for harvesting basic PII, more "normal" approaches are a lot more effective. Outside of very limited circumstances (e.g. when everyone is really angry, Hello Equifax!), the average person is remarkably uninterested in filling out data in return for an unknown amount of money, at some nebulously undefined future date, that is likely to be somewhere between $7 and $0.
- jononomo 3y agoThe settlement form tells me I can find my username at: "Account” > “Settings and Privacy” > “General Account Settings” > “Username.” But I don't see something called "General Account Settings" after I go to "Account > "Settings and Privacy". I looked around, and I couldn't find my username anywhere.
- tmaly 3y agoI want my two dollars! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdF_Vo4B6Ms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdF_Vo4B6Ms
- exabrial 3y ago725M is a rounding error. This should be every penny of revenue generated on the illegal use of data, regardless of their expense. You don't get to rob a bank and settle for less than you took.
- Scoundreller 3y ago> You are included in this Settlement as a Settlement Class Member if you were a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive. If I don’t live in USA, but used Facebook on US soil, am I eligible? Sounds like yes? The form itself says: > Did you reside in the United States at any time between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022, inclusive? If I stayed a night, that’s “any time”???
- acjacobson 3y agoIANAL - but reside generally means you established a residence there as opposed to just visited.
- Scoundreller 3y agoI mean, some people live in hotels. Or in tents. Or a sidewalk. Or in RVs. The IRS has its own rules on “residence” but that’s usually measured in hundreds of days, but here it’s “any”
- beavis000 3y agoBut the page title has a blue checkmark next to it!