Meta's $17.1 billion settlement dwarfs previous tech privacy payouts by 12-fold
Meta's $17.1 billion child-safety settlement is more than 12 times the size of its previous $1.4 billion privacy settlement. It ranks as the largest state consumer-protection agreement since the tobacco settlements. The deal also mandates a two-hour daily time limit for under-18 users on Facebook and Instagram.
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The settlement's scale becomes clearer when set against other major privacy and safety agreements. Meta's own 2024 Texas biometric case reached $1.4 billion, while Google's 2025 Texas data privacy deal totaled $1.375 billion.
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