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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

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Post by vdfs »

op00to wrote: post #50
ant6n wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if you are not a citizen, but spent some time in the US during that time? Do you need to have had residence at the time, or just an address, or is just being a tourist sufficient? Do you need to have had an account during that time, or did you need to have logged in during that time? Do you need to have told Facebook about that US address?

You don’t need to be a resident to be protected by US laws. Obviously they’re talking about location and not nationality or residence.

If you select "NO" in any of those questions you get an alert "You are not eligible" so you need to be a citizen and in the US in that time

Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by newshackr »

asimpletune wrote: post #59

One 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.

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Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by rvnx »

joshstrange wrote: post #14
miked85 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It usually takes years to get paid anything for these class actions, and then you might get a check for $5

This is very true but sometimes it’s worth it. I got over $3K from the price-fixing eye contact settlement. Normally signing up for these things takes less than 10min and sometimes you hit big. Though in this case I’m not expecting much.

The lawyers however get the jackpot: `Class Counsel will ask the Court for an award of attorneys’ fees not to exceed 25% of the Settlement Fund, as well as reasonable expenses`

180M USD to represent the rights of people who didn't ask for your help.

Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by JKCalhoun »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #4

Domains this website wants you to connect to (withtout allowing it to, to there might be even more, if you let it load from all those domains): 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

I remember when I started using the web "www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com" would be the only website that you would connect with.

So much crap now....

Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by varispeed »

I never trust these things. Suppose you make a claim and you don't know you end up with a flag on your account and then months or years later they'll find a bs reason to close it as a retribution.

The system is broken, because these things are just a cost of doing business for companies violating rights. They suffer no consequences and likely any settlement or fine will just be recouped from higher fees or already being factored in.

I think these things will never change until regulators start taking it seriously. I think if Meta was forced to be closed down or had to close the part of business that caused a violation, maybe other players would have taken those issues more seriously.

Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by rvnx »

op00to wrote: post #51
seaman1921 wrote: post #37

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.

The form then says you had to be US resident

Re: Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

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Post by varispeed »

imglorp wrote: post #63

$725M is about two days of revenue. Ouch, that stings! I hope they're ok and can survive to improve. /s Seriously though, where's the punitive aspect of the system here? https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

It seems like a racket. Big corporation does what it wants, lawyers get their cut, regulators have boxes ticked, yay! system is working!

But for whom?

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