Facebook Facing Class Action Suit Over Privacy

California lawsuit alleges social net mined users' private messages

Facebook is starting off the year under fire once again for allegations that it has violated its users' privacy. Two Facebook users have filed against the social network for using the content of private messages as data for targeted advertising.

The class action suit was brought earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the northern district of California by Matthew Campbell from Arkansas and Michael Hurley from Oregon on behalf of 166 million Facebook users in the country.

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