Meta reaches $37.5 million settlement over unwanted location tracking lawsuit
If you thought we were done with Meta settlements, think again. This month, the privacy settlement veteran agreed to pay $37.5 million to put to rest a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users’ smartphone location data without their permission. The suit dates four years and represented social media users who alleged Facebook inferred their locations via IP addresses even after they had turned location services off on their phones. That, of course, was allegedly done in the name of serving more ads.
