India, June 10 -- A second round of payments is coming for some Facebook users under a $725 million privacy class-action settlement involving Meta, Facebook's parent company. The case was about claims that Facebook shared users' private data with thousands of third parties like advertisers and data brokers

One major example linked to the case is Cambridge Analytica, which used Facebook data for political campaign profiling, as noted in the report by CBS News. The lawsuits covered a long time period starting from May 24, 2007, to Dec. 22, 2022. Meta denied all wrongdoing or legal responsibility in this case, as per reports. The settlement was officially approved in 2023, and all appeals were finished by May 2025.

The first round of payme...