The parent company of the social network, Meta, confirmed in December 2022 that it will pay 725 million dollars for a demand that the fault of granting to Cambridge Analytica and third parties access to private user data. The owner of the ‘metaverse’ also faced accusations of misleading users into control of their private information.
How to apply this claim?
If you meet the aforementioned requirement and want to receive your part of this process you can file the claim online before August 25, 2023 .
In the portal you must fill in all the information requested. For users who deleted their account after this period of time, they must specify the time interval in which their account remained active.
If a user had multiple active accounts, they will only be able to submit the claim for the oldest account.
Users will receive this compensation through direct deposit, Pay Pal or, failing that, a gift card. It should be taken into account that the amount of compensation will be divided among all the people who present the claim.
Claim via email
You can also submit this application by mail. you just have to print and complete the forms and send them to the agreement administrator to the address [email protected]
It is worth mentioning that users who want to do this process should Have an active account in the United States.
Cambridge Analytica
The case stemmed from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer to access the personal information of some 87 million users. from the platform.
That data was then used to profile and segment American voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
