Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy lawsuit

The four-year-oldcase alleged that the company had violated consumer privacy laws by sharing users’ personal data with third partiesMeta’s Facebook has in principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users, a court filing showed.The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing on Friday that asked the judge to put the class-action suit on hold for 60 day