US court declines reviews of Facebook settlement

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Washington:

The supreme court has left in place the settlement of class action lawsuit against Facebook over a marketing programme that broadcast users, purchasing and shopping habits to their friends.

The justices has declined to review the $9.5 million settlement of a lawsuit about the now shuttered beacon marketing programme. The money from the settlement was used to pay lawyers and set up an Internet privacy foundation. Almost none of it reached Facebook users.

 

The case offered a court that has been hostile to class action-lawsuits the opportunity to limit a proper way of settling such claims by directing the bulk of the money involved to lawyers and charity,rather than the people affected by a company's practices.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts said the court should take up the issue in another case.