Global Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Facebook in Europe
The suit claims that Facebook's use of "big data" systems, the "like" button and tracking users on external sites is in violation with European user data laws.
Privacy activist and founder of europe-v-facebook.org Max Schrems is organizing a class action lawsuit against Facebook, which could potentially be Europe’s largest data privacy suit.
Schrems, who is also a Viennese law student, has filed a civil suit against Facebook’s Irish subsidiary in Vienna’s commerical court. In accordance with Austrian law, Schrems opened the class action suit to all registered adult Facebook users outside the US and Canada through his Class Action App on fbclaim.com.
The suit claims that Facebook’s use of “big data” systems, the “like” button and tracking users on external sites is in violation with European user data laws.
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