Facebook sued for monitoring private messages

Facebook sued for Privacy Violation


Facebook is facing another class action lawsuit for allegedly monitoring private messages, capturing data from them and then selling them to third party vendors like marketing agencies, data aggregators and advertisers.

So the lawsuit is demanding that Facebook pay $100 per user per each violation and per day over $10,000 per Facebook user for violating the electronic communications privacy act.

So more specifically, the law suit claims that Facebook monitors users private messages, “ quote for purposes unrelated to the facilitation of message transmission” and that quote representing to users that the content of Facebook messages is “private” creates an especially profitable opportunity for Facebook because users who believe they are communicating on a service free from surveillance are likely to reveal facts about themselves that they would not reveal had they known the content was being monitored. Thus, Facebook has positioned itself to acquire pieces of the users ‘profiles that are likely unavailable to other data aggregators.Security experts have come out in defense of Facebook, blaming the user for not properly scanning and checking links.

On Monday, Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley filed suit against Facebook with the Northern District Court of California. The men accuse Facebook of scanning private messages with URLs in them "for purposes including but not limited to data mining and user profiling." The suit asserts that this practice is a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.



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