The Social Networking Giant Facebook has been accused of scanning private messages of its user’s data to provide it to some marketers. A class action lawsuit has been filed in California federal court against Facebook.
According to the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this social networking company scanned plaintiffs’ private messages containing uniform resource locators that is URLs and searched the website identified in the URL. This is done for the purposes including but not limited to profiling and data mining.
According to the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this social networking company scanned plaintiffs’ private messages containing uniform resource locators that is URLs and searched the website identified in the URL. This is done for the purposes including but not limited to profiling and data mining.
The company enables it to mine the user’s data and gain some bucks by sharing it with the other parties like marketers, advertisers and other data aggregates, according to the complaint. This social networking company is said to have violated the California privacy laws and Electronic Communications Privacy Act by its international interception of electronic communications.
High Tech Bridge, A Swiss firm, reported in August that it used an especially dedicated web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 most popular and largest social networks for the sake of testing with respect to user privacy.
The filed lawsuit is asking for the class action status and injunction against Facebook’s practices. It also claims the greater of either $100 US dollars a day for each day of alleged violations or $10,000 US dollars for every user who is claimed to be affected.
But on the other side, Facebook people officially emailed a statement which said, allegations are without merit and they will defend themselves vigorously. With the effect of growing social networks and competitors, Facebook is already lacking users from the last year. Now we will have to wait and see what and how this report will affect its users.
High Tech Bridge, A Swiss firm, reported in August that it used an especially dedicated web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 most popular and largest social networks for the sake of testing with respect to user privacy.
The filed lawsuit is asking for the class action status and injunction against Facebook’s practices. It also claims the greater of either $100 US dollars a day for each day of alleged violations or $10,000 US dollars for every user who is claimed to be affected.
But on the other side, Facebook people officially emailed a statement which said, allegations are without merit and they will defend themselves vigorously. With the effect of growing social networks and competitors, Facebook is already lacking users from the last year. Now we will have to wait and see what and how this report will affect its users.
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