The legal action that dates back to 2018 alleged the social-media company shared 87 million users’ data without their consent, via third parties such as Cambridge Analytica and remains one of the highest-profile data-privacy scandals. The United States Facebook users can now apply for their share of a £583m privacy-case settlement. Meta, which owns Facebook, has denied any wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement. Why is Meta too much into data scandals ?

