Facebook's parent company, Meta, has agreed to a $37.5 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing the company of violating users' privacy by tracking their movements without permission. 

The payout plan, filed Monday in San Francisco federal court, still needs final approval by a judge.

Plaintiffs in Lundy et Al Jazeera News Today vs.

Meta Platforms claim the social media platform collected location data even when users turned off their phones' location services setting, violating both California law and Facebook's own privacy policies.

Meta didn't respond to a request for comment on the case. In court papers, however, it said agreeing to the deal was not an admission of any wrongdoing.

In June, the company  stemming from accusations that it tracked users onto other sites even after they logged off Facebook.

Earlier this year, it settled a $650 million class action case claiming Facebook's facial recognition scans .

Read on to find out what Facebook's location tracking case is about, who is eligible for a payment and how to claim money.

What is Facebook accused of?

A class action lawsuit filed in 2018 in the US District Court's Northern District of California accuses Meta of tracking Facebook users' location without permission, using their IP address to infer their positioning in order to serve them targeted ads. 

"Despite Facebook's representation that it will only receive location information from users' devices if they permitted, Facebook has been covertly obtaining detailed location information from users regardless of whether a user has opted in or opted out on his or her device," .

It wasn't until the EU began enforcing that Facebook "realized that it had to come clean about its data collection practices in its data policy," according to the complaint, which stated Facebook had previously specifically claimed that collection of any location information was opt-in.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg that the company used shared location data "to help advertisers reach people in particular areas.