India, April 11 -- After years of legal back-and-forth, Facebook users across the US are now beginning to receive settlement payments from the long-running "Internet Tracking" class-action lawsuit. The case stems from allegations that Facebook violated privacy laws by tracking users' browsing activity on third-party websites-even after they had logged out of their accounts, as reported by NBC Chicago.

The settlement, totaling $90 million, was finalised after Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) agreed to resolve the claims without admitting wrongdoing.

The lawsuit covers activity that took place between April 2010 and September 2011, during which Facebook allegedly used cookies and social plug-ins to collect detailed user data w...