Facebook Faces Class Action Over Kids’ Purchases of Facebook Credits
Facebook Credits became a thing of the past in September 2013, but the social network must still face a class-action lawsuit related to kids’ ability to purchase them.
Facebook Credits became a thing of the past in September 2013, but the social network must still face a class-action lawsuit related to kids’ ability to purchase them.
Reuters reported that U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, Calif., ruled that the plaintiffs in I.B. et al vs. Facebook Inc., U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 12-01894, could press on with their case.
The class action was originally filed in April 2012, before the demise of Facebook Credits, and it was brought by “hundreds of thousands” of parents whose children used their credit cards and debit cards to buy the virtual currency.
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