Plaintiffs' lawyers say sum to be paid by social media firm is 'largest recovery ever achieved' in a class action suit over data privacy
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Social media giant was hit with class action suit for providing access to personal data of 87 million users in lead-up to 2016 US election
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Facebook barred apps which scraped data on users and their contacts after revelations about the now-defunct British consulting group, but that hasn't deterred many
Database of user names and phone numbers made available for download last week on online hacker forum apparently belonging to crime group
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Social media giant to pay out for undermining privacy concerns of users and allowing sharing of their data; Zuckerberg held only partially responsible
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