The Phillip Burton Federal Building hosts the San Francisco arm of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on Jan. 20, 2023. The Thomson Reuters litigation took place in the district.

A privacy lawsuit that stretches back years has finally reached its resolution, with cash now arriving to tens of thousands of Californians.

On Tuesday evening, Venmo payments for $156.09 from “CLEAR Privacy Settlement Administrator” landed on phones across the state. Recipients have two Bay Area activists to thank — journalist Rasheed Shabazz and former Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks, who originally sued media giant Thomson Reuters over its data collection and sales product, called CLEAR, in December 2020. An updated class-action

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