Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

Re:Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of... by ant6n on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:44AM (#36919252)

What if you are not a citizen, but spent some time in the US during that time? Do you need to have had residence at the time, or just an address, or is just being a tourist sufficient? Do you need to have had an account during that time, or did you need to have logged in during that time? Do you need to have told Facebook about that US address?

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Re:Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of... by op00to on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:51AM (#36919310)

You don’t need to be a resident to be protected by US laws. Obviously they’re talking about location and not nationality or residence.

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Re:Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of... by vdfs on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:17AM (#36919527)

If you select "NO" in any of those questions you get an alert "You are not eligible" so you need to be a citizen and in the US in that time

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Re:Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of... by notpushkin on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:37AM (#36920742)

It's asking “Did you reside in the United States”, which does indeed suggest you need to be a resident (i. e. have a green card I guess?). However, I think it can be more broadly interpreted as “be present in the U.S. at some point”, which also correlates with the class definition: “All Facebook users in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive.”

(I am not a lawyer, take this with a grain of salt.)

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Re:Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of... by menshiki on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:47AM (#36919287)

I was wondering the exact same.

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