REPORT: Judge lets Facebook class action case proceed
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(Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media company’s views on privacy “so wrong.”
While dismissing some claims, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said users could try to hold Facebook liable under various federal and state laws for letting app developers and business partners harvest their personal data without their consent on a “widespread” basis.
The article goes on to state the following:
He rejected Facebook’s arguments that users suffered no “tangible” harm and had no legitimate privacy interest in information they shared with friends on social media.
“Facebook’s motion to dismiss is littered with assumptions about the degree to which social media users can reasonably expect their personal information and communications to remain private,” Chhabria wrote. “Facebook’s view is so wrong.”
“Facebook’s view is that once you make information available to your friends on social media, you completely relinquish any privacy interest in that information,” Chhabria wrote. “The problem with Facebook’s argument is that it treats privacy as an all-or-nothing proposition – either you retain a full privacy interest by not sharing information with anyone, or you have no privacy interest whatsoever by virtue of sharing it even in a limited fashion.”
Judge calls Facebook’s views on privacy ‘so wrong’ as he allows class-action to proceed https://t.co/0rj2r4zUoV @GlobeBusiness pic.twitter.com/FmfxmnU4UK
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) September 9, 2019
Facebook can't deactivate privacy class action https://t.co/XfticBDe3s pic.twitter.com/lXGlzbOkSQ
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 9, 2019
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