Meta and Snap reach settlements over separate data privacy lawsuits

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Meta and Snap have both separately reached settlements over data privacy lawsuits this week.

Meta reached a $37.5m settlement after Facebook was charged in 2018 with tracking users’ locations, despite their disabling Location Services, via their IP addresses to send targeted ads.

Snap, meanwhile, reached a $35m settlement in a class-action lawsuit in Illinois which alleged Snap was illegally collecting and storing users’ biometric data without their consent through the use of Lenses and filters.

Meta and Snap both denied wrongdoing despite settling.