Facebook was accused of illicitly following users onto other websites but users only have until 11:59 p.m. PT to be part of the payout. Dan was a writer on CNET's How-To and Thought Leadership teams.

After years of legal back-and-forth, Facebook users across the US are now beginning to receive settlement payments from the long-running “Internet Tracking” class-action lawsuit. The case stems from ...

Facebook (FB)-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users’ activity across the internet, even ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union objecting to Meta’s behavioral advertising can easily ask for their data not to being used for its consentless tracking-and-profiling thanks to a ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A ...

Facebook has launched a new feature that will allow the popular social media platform to track even more of your online activity, and we can help you turn it off. It’s no secret that social media ...

Meta Platforms Inc reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the parent of Facebook of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements through their smartphones without permission.