During the Donald Trump campaign in 2016, personal data of 87 million users of the social network had been collected and exploited without consent.
Le Monde with AFP
Facebook has concluded a preliminary agreement in a trial launched in 2018 demanding damages from the social network for having left third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, having access to private users.
According to a legal document filed Friday August 26 with a court in San Francisco, Facebook asked for the suspension of the procedures for sixty days “in order to finalize the agreement in writing and to present it in court”.
The social network does not mention an amount or the terms of this agreement in this collective name. Questioned by AFP, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, did not respond on Saturday. 2>
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg should have testified
The agreement comes as Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and its Managing Director Sheryl Sandberg, who announced his resignation in June after fourteen years in the company, had to testify to justice in September, as part of This scandal.
In a procedure launched for four years, Facebook users accused the social network of having violated the rules for the protection of privacy by sharing their data to third parties, including the firm Cambridge Analytica, linked to the campaign Presidential of Donald Trump in 2016. The company, which has closed since, had collected and operated, without their consent, the personal data of 87 million Facebook users. This information would have been used to develop software intended to guide the vote of American voters in favor of Donald Trump. 2> a fine of $ 5 billion in 2019
In July 2019, the federal authorities imposed on Facebook a fine of $ 5 billion (the Euros is par with the dollar) for having “cheated” its users and imposed an independent control of its management of its management Personal data.
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out, Facebook deleted access to its data to thousands of applications, suspected of abusing it, restricts the amount of information accessible to developers in general and ease, for users, calibration of restrictions on sharing personal data.
Critics targeting Facebook have not stopped. In 2021, the “Facebook Files”, thousands of internal documents revealed by a whistleblower, showed the flaws in the regulation of the powerful American social network.