Meta’s $90 Million Tracking Deal Challenged Before Ninth Circuit

Objectors to Facebook’s $90 million settlement of a class action over its tracking of users on non-Facebook websites told a skeptical federal appeals court on Wednesday that deal should be tossed because the lower court failed to properly value the class’s statutory claims.

The plaintiffs in the consolidated litigation alleged that Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms Inc., tracked their online activities without their consent even when they were no longer logged into the social media service.

The settlement was reached after the Ninth Circuit held that the plaintiffs had adequately pleaded claims under the Federal Wiretap Act, the California ...