[CursedUrn]

Hopefully other states and countries sue them too. Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data and they should be held accountable for it.

[qingcharles]

They already did. They settled this same kind of suit in Illinois a couple of years back and paid everyone a few hundreds dollars piece. Google too.

[burningChrome]

This is always my frustration with class action lawsuits. The people who've been affected by the company never get anything of value. Its always the attorney's and state that started the suits that make all the money.

The worst was back in the day when Chevy used some bogus primer for their trucks. They refused to say it was their fault owners paint was coming off their trucks sans any rust. A class action was started and then over the course of several years, the government and owners finally won.

What did the owners get? Coupons for $100 off a paint job at the local Chevy dealer.

So not only did the owners not get anything to help them fix their problems, they were forwarded to a local dealership where the dealership could then take advantage of them again and charge them thousands of dollars and essentially make all the money back they were paying the attorney's and government.

[nilamo]

Let's not pretend like that is a positive outcome. All of your personal data being irrevocably made available to persons unknown, and used for unknowable purposes for untold decades... but at least you got $100 one time.

[chrischen]

A lot of our profile pics are actually public, and models like OpenAI's probably ingested those too.

[knodi123]

> Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data

Gotta remember the quote from Zuckerberg during the early days, when someone asked him how he got all that private data. He said, and I quote, "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

[tumult]

This affected people who never even used Facebook. It would tag and track your presence in photos even if you had no Facebook account.

[corney91]

That's not the same as consenting to Facebook using their data for whatever Facebook wants.

[crowcroft]

Citation needed.

[awahab92]

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[minklebottom]

I despise Facebook, but this is absurd. There's no world in which there was 1.4b of harm done to Texans.

This is no better than theft, and it will be defended exclusively by people who have never created a single thing of value in their entire lives.