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Meta\u2019s settlement comes in as one of the largest of its kind. The agreement puts the social media giant\u2019s payment at over 12-times higher than the previous highest settlement in the past four years\u2014a mark Meta itself kept up to that point with its $1.4 billion settlement in 2024. At up to $17.1 billion, state attorneys general describe it as the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s\u2014and it is the largest settlement ever reached with a single company in the New York attorney general\u2019s office (the previous being in 2022 with the state\u2019s $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over the opioid crisis).<\/p>\n

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Previous settlements surrounding children and teen safety include TikTok\u2019s $400 million children\u2019s privacy COPPA settlement in 2026, Meta\u2019s $1.4 billion Texas biometric data privacy settlement in 2024, Google\u2019s $1.375 billion Texas data privacy settlement in 2025, Meta\u2019s $725 Facebook user privacy settlement in 2023, and Google\u2019s $391.5 million location-tracking privacy settlement in 2022.<\/p>\n

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