Class-Action Suit vs. Facebook to Austria’s Supreme Court
The next stop for the privacy-related class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook in Vienna is Austria’s Supreme Court.
The next stop for the privacy-related class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook in Vienna is Austria’s Supreme Court.
TechCrunch reported that Austria’s Supreme Court will rule on whether the lawsuit can be treated as a class-action suit.
Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group initially filed the class-action suit against the social network in August 2014, citing several examples of alleged privacy violations by Facebook.
A court in Vienna rejected the lawsuit in June, saying that it had no jurisdiction over the case.
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