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Mark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms will pay the company $190 million. This ends shareholder claims that they hurt Meta by breaking Facebook users' privacy. A settlement shown on Thursday said this. The company's board also said yes to changes in policy. These cover how directors act, insider trading and protections for whistleblowers. Lawsuit Was About Privacy Rules Being Broken The deal ended a lawsuit by shareholders. They said the Facebook co founder and other people in charge hit the company with billions of dollars in fines and legal bills. These came from breaking privacy rules. The agreement adds details to a deal announced in court on July 17. That stopped a planned eight day trial on its second day. Shareholders wanted $8 billion from Zuckerberg and 10 current and former directors and officers. They said these people let Facebook users' personal information get accessed without users saying yes. The people being sued had said no to all claims. The settlement stopped the trial before big witnesses had to speak. These included Zuckerberg, billionaire investor and Meta board member Marc Andreessen, and former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Former Facebook board members Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings also did not have to go on the stand. Thiel started Palantir Technologies with others. Hastings started Netflix with others. Facebook Became Meta Three Years Ago Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021. Meta is also the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp. The company was not being sued. Derivative lawsuits get money back from directors and top workers. The money goes to the company. This helps shareholders in a roundabout way. California State Teachers' Retirement System was one of the shareholders who filed the case. The group said it was the second biggest settlement ever of a derivative case in Delaware. Companies including Meta have left or thought about leaving Delaware as their legal home. This happened after Elon Musk had his $56 billion pay package from Tesla thrown out by the Delaware court. This made people criticize that the court liked shareholder lawsuits too much. Lawyers Will Take Big Chunk of Money When we use our voice and use tools like going to court in the right way, it helps both companies and shareholders for the long run, said CalSTRS board Chair Denise Bradford in a statement. The law firms that filed the case will ask for a fee of up to 30 percent of the settlement. They will also ask for $4.8 million in costs. This also comes from the settlement according to court papers. The settlement got paid from insurance policies for directors and officers. The shareholders who filed the case said directors did not watch Zuckerberg and Sandberg properly. They said the two got to run an operation that harvested data illegally. Cambridge Analytica Scandal Started Everything The lawsuit got filed after the scandal with Cambridge Analytica. This was a British political consulting firm that does not exist anymore. The firm got data secretly from tens of millions of Facebook users. It used this to make targeted messages for people who hired them. These included Donald Trump during his successful run for US president in 2016. People from Trump's 2016 campaign have said Cambridge Analytica did not do much in the election. What came out led to a record $5 billion fine by the Federal Trade Commission. Other legal settlements came after. Zuckerberg also got accused of trading Meta stock to make money from inside information. The people being sued said the proof at trial would have shown that Facebook had strong systems to keep user data safe. They said Cambridge Analytica lied. We sent a clear message that even the most powerful directors and officers have to take their job of watching things seriously, said Maxwell Huffman. He is a lawyer at Scott + Scott who stood up for investors. The Cambridge Analytica scandal made many people angry. Users learned their personal information got taken without them knowing. The data had things like what they clicked like on, who their friends were, and what they wrote. Cambridge Analytica used this to work out how to change voters' minds. The whole thing made big questions about how Facebook kept user data safe. Lots of people felt betrayed that their information got used this way. The $5 billion fine was the biggest privacy fine ever at that time. But some people said even that was not enough to punish Facebook for what happened. Meta Description (17 words): Mark Zuckerberg and Meta directors pay $190 million to end shareholder lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy violations. Meta Excerpt (90 words): Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders will pay $190 million to end shareholder claims they broke Facebook users' privacy. The deal stopped litigation over billions in fines and legal bills from breaking privacy rules. Shareholders originally wanted $8 billion from Zuckerberg and 10 directors. Settlement stopped trial before witnesses testified. Case came from Cambridge Analytica scandal where firm secretly got tens of millions of Facebook users' data. Meta board said yes to changes on director behavior, insider trading and whistleblower protections. Get more technology and legal news at Inspirepreneure magazine. Read about big companies facing responsibility for privacy and keeping data safe.

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