U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria granted preliminary approval to Facebook's USD725 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica claims, the plaintiff's law firm Keller Rohrback said in a statement. "To date, this is the largest privacy class action settlement in the United States," the firm said, adding it is pleased with the preliminary approval and looks "forward to completing the approval process as quickly as possible."