Facebook Hit With Class-Action Suit by Developers Over Loss of Access to Social Data in 2014

Social network accused of 'an anticompetitive scheme of unprecedented scale'

Four app developers filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to put a stop to “the most brazen, willful anticompetitive scheme in a generation.”

Law firm Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht represents the plaintiffs, who allege in the lawsuit that the more data Facebook collected on its users, the more attractive its social network became to those users, creating what it called a “social data barrier to entry,” or SDBE.

They

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