A court filing showed that 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. The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing that asked the judge to put the class action on hold for 60 days until the lawyers for both plaintiffs and Facebook finalized a written settlement. The four-year-old lawsuit alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing personal data of users with third parties such as the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

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