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Posted on 05/12/2018 1:51:23 PM PDT by upchuck
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following the revelation that the company logged users’ text and call logs using the Facebook smartphone app. Facebook is now reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit relating to the company’s collection of user text and audio logs via the Facebook smartphone app, Fast Company reports. A lawsuit filed in the northern district of California names John Condelles III as the main plaintiff and states that Facebook “presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring of minors and potential attacks on privileged communications.”
It was revealed recently that Facebook was collecting and storing logs of users phone calls and texts, including the recipients of texts and duration of conversations. According to the lawsuit, “Facebook has collected and stored information in a scope and manner beyond that which users knowingly authorized. The practice is ongoing.” The complaint alleges that this practice violates California’s Unfair Competition Law in relation to three counts as well as fraudulent business practice and violation of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
According to the filing: “The terms of service and privacy notice materials do not inform (and in the past have not informed) the ordinary and reasonably attentive Facebook user that installing the application on a mobile device will result in the logging of all the user’s phone and text communications — including recipients, dates of communication, length of communication and mode of communication — on Facebook’s servers for Facebook’s own use.”
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FINALLY!!!!!
The plaintiff is seeking $5 million in damages and wants to make this a nation-wide class action lawsuit. YES!
Zuckerburg:” Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? If I had any idea that spying, snooping and collecting personal information was in the least amount disagreeable, I wouldn’t have done it”.
The plantiff will see all of the money and the victims will see a $2 credit for some time limited service.
Zuckschmuck logs your calls in absence of a judicial oversight to do so.
Facebook is also engaged in an increasingly successful effort to ban highly popular conservatives from its website, in violation of its status as a utility that is required to have no political bias. Facebook should either stop the banning of conservatives or surrender its status as a utility, thus opening itself up to libel lawsuits.
Who do they think they are, the NSA?
Bump
Just another front.
Like 23 and Me, a Google-backed company, a front for .....
Well, hey, I wear a tinfoil hat, so.......
No you are not.
The App comes pre-installed with new smart phones.
You have to manually delete it.
According to the lawsuit, “Facebook has collected and stored information in a scope and manner beyond that which users knowingly authorized. The practice is ongoing.”
Back in the early 80s I found out, after the fact, I was a part of a class action suit against United Airlines. I received 12 $10 coupons as my share of the settlement. The problem was you could only use one coupon per ticket purchased and it could only be used on full-fare ticket purchases while booking directly through the United Airlines office.
Since I traveled by calling a travel agency my tickets were not eligible, and always cheaper than full-fare, so the coupons were useless. Only the lawyers got anything of value.
It was the Data Mining people that lobbied for electronic medical record. (High Tech Act on 2009) Wonder why??????
I like tinfoil hats!
Tinfoil is good!
Zuck wept.
$5 million is pocket change for them. hoping it was $5m per person.
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