Facebook user privacy settlement payment: How much people are getting
Meta is sending people money for having their digital privacy violated, but exactly how much are they sending out?
That's the big question these days. Starting in September, Meta began gradually rolling out payments to some Facebook users who had successfully submitted a claim by the 2023 deadline. These claims were related to the circa 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal in which Facebook allegedly allowed the misuse of user data, causing the company to agree to pay out a total of $725 million to its users.
So, how much is that worth, legally speaking? If you had your data violated by Facebook and submitted a claim, the amount you get is going to differ based on how long you were on Facebook during the period in which data was being misused. According to various reports, including a first-hand account from Reuters, payouts are averaging around $30 per person, with none being higher than about $38.
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It's up to you to decide if $30 is enough to compensate for having your personal information scraped by a firm that helped get Donald Trump elected president in 2016.
Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last decade reviewing games, smartphones, headphones, and laptops, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. He is also a Pisces, a cat lover, and a Kansas City sports fan. Alex can be found on Bluesky at yelix.bsky.social.
