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Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout (theconversation.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by brisk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Related to a class action regarding privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

You can apply if you:

  • held a Facebook account between 2 November 2013 and 17 December 2015 (the eligibility period)

  • were in Australia for more than 30 days during that period, and

  • either installed the Life app or were Facebook friends with someone who did.

Try this link to see if the company has records of you or your friends logging into the Digital Life app. If there are, you should be able to use the “fast track” application.

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~It looks like you can apply even if you don't know you're affected and they (KPMG) will determine eligibility, but that's a lot of personal information for a "maybe"~~

~~https://www.facebookpaymentprogram.com.au/Standard/~~

The FAQ makes me much less confident in my previous statement

https://www.facebookpaymentprogram.com.au/FAQ/

[-] ada 12 points 1 week ago

Well, it turns out I can use emails from facebook in that time period as proof, and I've got plenty of those. However... I would need to provide my ID to facebook to make a claim, and the reason I no longer have a facebook account is my adamant refusal to provide my ID to them.

So thus it ends before it begins :)

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