Thursday, December 25, 2014

Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Scanning Users Private Messages


Facebook is facing lawsuit over accusations that social media company scanned the content of users' private messages and sent to other users for advertising purpose.
The company dismissed the claim but provided less explanation. They said no laws were broken since the message scan were protected under an exception in the Electronic Communication Privacy Act.

"If the lawsuit succeed, affected users get as much as $10,000."
US district judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, dismissed some state-law claims against the social media company but largely denied Facebook's bid to dismiss the lawsuit 
The lawsuit was filed by Facebook user Matthew Campbell and seeks class action status on behalf of US users who sent or received private messages that included website addresses in their conten

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