deadline to file a claim is this week – NBC Chicago

If you were looking to file a claim in the nationwide class-action Facebook privacy settlement, the deadline to do so is this week.

The $725 million class-action settlement was reached with Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc. late last year.

Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit that alleged the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to become available to third parties without their permission and claimed the platform did not monitor or enforce third-party access to the data they received. That includes Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and went on to be used for political advertising on the platform.

Anyone who was a U.S. Facebook user at any point between May 24, 2007 and Dec. 22, 2022 is eligible to file a claim.

Eligible users have until Aug. 25, 2023, to file.

The guidelines for the settlement were expanded to include even more users….