Read your email carefully this week: On Monday morning, I received an email from PayPal with the enticing subject line, "Your Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Payment." And no, it wasn't a scam. I opened it to find my PayPal account had been sent $37.55 as my share of Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement.

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I was glad I spotted the email, because the money would've sat there in PayPal until I made a PayPal purchase. Instead, I chose to transfer it to my bank, where it's expected to show up by Thursday.

That's the good news. The bad news is that if you neglected to file a claim by the 2023 deadline , you're out of luck.

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