Facebook’s $90 Million Online-Tracking Deal Challenged on Appeal

Facebook’s $90 million settlement of class actions alleging it illegally tracked users’ online activities provides inadequate relief in a case with statutory damages of $1.24 trillion and should be thrown out, two objectors say.

The district court applied the wrong standard in granting final approval to a settlement proposal that dramatically compromised available aggregate damages, Sarah Feldman and Hondo Jan said in an opening brief filed Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The US District Court for the Northern District of California also failed to explain the settlement’s discount against available damages in light of ...