What if I visited the US for business/as a tourist during this period but reside in EU ? Can I still claim ?
Were you in the United States and used Facebook during that time period? If so, then yes.
Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
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Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
For 50 bucks I will tell you my name, birthday, credit card, ms/google/fb id, email and physical addresses.
So far I've come across 2 comments by you in this thread and both are minimizing privacy concerns in an off-hand manner. - to give that 50 bucks to me you would require some information from me. Just post it here and we'll upvote you, 'k? (You are trivializing access to such personal info. Just post it all here to prove your point.) - blocking all those sites [your other comment] disables functionality.
You claim that posting personal information on a public site is the same as a bona fide class action settlement site? Please explain how it’s similar.
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#53> IF I DO NOTHING > If you are a Settlement Class Member and you do nothing, you will give up the rights explained in Question 9, including your right to start a lawsuit, continue a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant and the Released Parties about the legal issues or factual allegations resolved by this Settlement. In addition, you will not receive a payment from this Settlement How can I…
Rule 23 is the general procedure:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_23
IANAL.
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#54Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#55https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32... They are estimating the payment will be around $35 per claimant. The settlement has not yet been approved; this website is performing no small amount of data gathering which the class action lawyers will no doubt use as evidence that the settlement should be approved. There are a variety of objections. (Imagine if these could prevent the settlement from…
>They are estimating the payment will be around $35 per claimant Is that based on the time spent using Facebook? ~5 years ago I deleted my account, would I only receive 2/3's of the amount?
Yeah, it looks like it's pro-rated:
> The Settlement Administrator will assign each Authorized Claimant one point for each month in which the Authorized Claimant had an activated Facebook account during the Class Period.
(#8 on https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs )
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is a Facebook notification sufficient? That seems to bear an implication that you're required to have kept using Facebook all this time, despite their misdeeds and general decline in popularity.
They've also been advertising it pretty extensively for quite a while. I signed up close to a year ago I think. At the end of the day they aren't required to cover every edge case or possible contingency. Like the other person said, its a compromise. If everyone had to file individually, most would never get justice. The settlement gets evaluated for reasonableness by the court for exactly this issue. Not everyone is…
As much as I like being an "edge case", "contingency", "fraction", etc., I can't agree.
Do you have a good reason to believe that we can consider negligible the proportion of people who are entitled to participate in this class action but are not aware of its existence and their rights and responsibilities? Can you show that it's probable that they're not in the majority?
The problem may be thorny, but you haven't made a convincing argument that this solution is decent. The law (in some countries more than others) is full of unsatisfying compromise, and not for lack of good ideas.
Fwiw, class actions of this type have been popular mostly in one country and only since the sixties. I agree that it's the status quo and people aren't rioting over it, but that's hardly the consensus of hundreds of years of jurisprudence.
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#57> IF I DO NOTHING > If you are a Settlement Class Member and you do nothing, you will give up the rights explained in Question 9, including your right to start a lawsuit, continue a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant and the Released Parties about the legal issues or factual allegations resolved by this Settlement. In addition, you will not receive a payment from this Settlement How can I…
That’s why class actions require the assent of a judge. Because they are a compromise between getting justice for the largest number of people, and efficient handling of the cases. It’s imperfect, but so is requiring every one of the millions of individual to file their own lawsuit, or allowing the company to remain liable indefinitely. Having said that, I assume they are required to make an honest effort to notify a…
Is this only for US Facebook users?
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Domains that you block, if you don't want to connect to them: facebookuserprivacysettlement.com www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com adsrvr.org js.adsrvr.org digitaldisbursements.com content.digitaldisbursements.com fonts.googleapis.com google.com zdassets.com static.zdassets.com No, seriously, if you don't want to connect to these sites, block them.
These two comments, in a nutshell, perfectly exemplify the Europe vs USA mentality, socialism vs libertarianism. Top down oversight vs you need to protect yourself because no one will. If only you could draw a gun at these pesky websites! /s
A fella could dream, right?
It would be funny to have a wild west subnet of the internet where ddos and hacking was something you signed s EULA for on the way in…
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#59One thing I don't like about these class action settlements is there's no way to easily know if the site you're putting all your information on is legit or not. An attacker could easily make a fake site which could serve as a possible vector for future attacks.
This is really the kind of thing that should be behind a .gov TLD or something of that nature.
Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've also been advertising it pretty extensively for quite a while. I signed up close to a year ago I think. At the end of the day they aren't required to cover every edge case or possible contingency. Like the other person said, its a compromise. If everyone had to file individually, most would never get justice. The settlement gets evaluated for reasonableness by the court for exactly this issue. Not everyone is…
As much as I like being an "edge case", "contingency", "fraction", etc., I can't agree. Do you have a good reason to believe that we can consider negligible the proportion of people who are entitled to participate in this class action but are not aware of its existence and their rights and responsibilities? Can you show that it's probable that they're not in the majority? The problem may be thorny, but you haven't ma…
The rest of your comment is a perfectly valid way of looking at things, so I'm not going to contest it. I think my comment stands and you have a different take, which is totally fine. We don't have to agree. But I did note this section:
>Fwiw, class actions of this type have been popular mostly in one country and only since the sixties.
I presume you're speaking of the US, but just a month ago (went into effect June 25th) the EU opened up and simplified their class action scheme ('Directive on Representative Actions') to make it simpler and easier to file class action suits and largely remove borders and jurisdiction squabbles from the discussion. This US style system was set up specifically because it better protects consumers.
Quoting from the EU themselves:
>However, the consumers affected may feel powerless and hesitate to take legal actions. They might be confronted to obstacles such as the uncertainty about their rights or about which procedural mechanisms are available, psychological reluctance to take action or the negative balance of the expected costs relative to the benefits of the individual action. Collective redress mechanisms, such as the one provided by Directive (EU) 2020/1828 are therefore needed to overcome the obstacles faced by consumers in individual actions.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protecti...