The settlement potentially includes up to 194 million people, so if even just small part of people asks for money, they'll get just dollars. Situation with Equifax repeats itself.
Good thing we have the option to get free credit monitoring... that we just received from the last time our data was carelessly handled.
Maybe now would be a good time to create a credit monitoring startup.
The only winners in class action lawsuits are the lawyers. It seems like class actions only exist to effectively serve as law enforcement ie the private-sector version of attorneys general.
That's because the point of class actions aren't to make the wronged people whole, it's to form a large enough legal stick to beat large, misbehaving entities about the head with.