{"id":6843,"date":"2022-08-28T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:37:52","slug":"facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic move shows Mark Zuckerberg \u2018desperate to avoid being questioned over cover-up\u2019, says Observer journalist who exposed scandal<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election\" title=\"\">the<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election\" title=\"\"> Observer <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election\" title=\"\">exposed the scandal<\/a> that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy.<\/p>\n<p>A court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, has in principle settled for an undisclosed sum a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the UK analysis firm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/27\/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf543f57884173a8e5736b1810a720dc92f82c7\/1271_695_1729_1037\/master\/1729.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=277e51c42ee3076922b06721bb2bad36\" title=\"Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement\" \/>Dramatic move shows Mark Zuckerberg \u2018desperate to avoid being questioned over cover-up\u2019, says Observer journalist who exposed scandal<br \/>\nFacebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy.<br \/>\nA court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, has in principle settled for an undisclosed sum a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the UK analysis firm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic move shows Mark Zuckerberg \u2018desperate to avoid being questioned over cover-up\u2019, says Observer journalist who exposed scandal Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}