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Facebook users who filed claims in a $90 million privacy settlement that dates back nearly 15 years could soon start seeing payments – or may have already been paid. Many people on social media said they started receiving payments of $40.67 on Thursday, April 10.
A class-action lawsuit claimed Facebook improperly tracked users' online activity without consent when users visited non-Facebook websites displaying Facebook's "Like" button. The suit said the nonconsensual tracking happened between Wednesday, April 22, 2010, and Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.
An estimated 124 million Facebook users in the US were affected, according to court documents. Facebook denied violating the law but agreed to the settlement, which officially went into effect on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.
The agreement was described in federal appeals court as the seventh-largest privacy class-action settlement at the time. Facebook also agreed to delete all cookie data it improperly collected during the period covered by the suit.
Money will be sent through payment methods like direct deposit, a virtual prepaid Mastercard, a check, or a transfer through PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle.
Users had until Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, to submit a claim.
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