Judge closes Facebook case
AN AMERICAN judge has granted approval to Facebook’s $20m (£12.8m) settlement of a class-action lawsuit over its sponsored story advertising programme.
The lawsuit filed in 2011 alleged that Facebook’s sharing of users’ so–called likes to advertisers without their consent was a privacy breach.
Facebook will pay out $20m to members of the lawsuit and as part of the settlement the social network agreed to give users more control over how their content is shared.