Facebook Ordered to Stand Trial Over Claims That It Scanned Users’ Messages
U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, Calif., dismissed some claims in a class-action lawsuit against Facebook but ruled that the social network must face claims that it scanned the content of messages sent between users, for advertising purposes, Re/code reported.
U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, Calif., dismissed some claims in a class-action lawsuit against Facebook but ruled that the social network must face claims that it scanned the content of messages sent between users, for advertising purposes, Re/code reported.
According to Re/code, Facebook argued that its actions were covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, but Hamilton ruled:
(Facebook has) not offered a sufficient explanation of how the challenged practice falls within the ordinary course of its business.
Re/code reported that the lawsuit was originally filed in 2013, and it alleged that Facebook scanned private messages sent between users for links and added those links to the like totals for the respective pages, violating federal and California state law.
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