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Meta offers Canadian Facebook users $51M to settle lawsuit in 4 provinces
Meta is offering $51 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in four Canadian provinces over the use of some users' images in Facebook advertising.
A multimillion-dollar settlement proposed by Meta sends a message to other companies about the importance of paying attention to the country's privacy laws, says a lawyer representing Canadians in the class-action lawsuit against the social media giant. Meta is offering $51 million to settle the lawsuit in four provinces over Facebook's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program, which ran from 2011 to 2014, using people's names and photos without their knowledge. Christopher Rhone, a partner at the Vancouver law firm Branch MacMaster who represented the plaintiffs, said large social media companies are usually not based in Canada but still expect to do business here.
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