Facebook is being sued
by two users claiming the social networking site intercepts private messages
and shares the data with third parties.
The lawsuit claims
Facebook violates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by scanning message
content containing web links and profiling the sender’s web activity, sharing
this data with advertisers and marketers and undermining security.
Michael Sobol, an
attorney for the plaintiffs, said in the complaint the scanning “is a mechanism
for Facebook to surreptitiously gather data in an effort to improve its marketing
algorithms and increase its ability to profit from data about Facebook users”.
The plaintiffs are
seeking a class action on behalf of all Facebook users who have sent a private
message including web links in the last two years, seeking to end the practice
and obtain damages for each user.
From humanipo
