{"id":161644,"date":"2026-08-26T16:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/26\/metas-17b-settlement-momentous-step-forward-but-concerns-arise-about-amount-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:28:31","slug":"metas-17b-settlement-momentous-step-forward-but-concerns-arise-about-amount-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/26\/metas-17b-settlement-momentous-step-forward-but-concerns-arise-about-amount-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta’s $17B Settlement: ‘Momentous Step Forward,’ but Concerns Arise About Amount, Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta’s settlement, announced on Wednesday, is with 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington D.C., but legal experts and observers flagged initial concerns about age verification and releases in the deal.<\/p>\n

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Meta’s settlement, announced on Wednesday, is with 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington D.C., but legal experts and observers flagged initial concerns about age verification and releases in the deal.<\/p>\n

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Meta’s settlement, announced on Wednesday, is with 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington D.C., but legal experts and observers flagged initial concerns about age verification and releases in the deal. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meta’s settlement, announced on Wednesday, is with 50 states, U.S. territories and Washington D.C., but legal experts and observers flagged initial concerns about age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-NMhOxJ.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}