Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a case centered on the company’s use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook users’ internet activity after they had logged off from the platform, Variety reports. Meta fought the 2012 case for many years before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against the company in 2020, finding that unlawfully collecting and...
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