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twoelevenFacebook must face lawsuit over scanning of users' messages: judge
we are, of course, not surprised, since facebook is in the business of stealing people's secrets. as this piece mentions in passing in talking about inter alia fitbit posting information about people's sex lives, if you can't figure out what a company's product is, it's you.
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users' privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes, a U.S. judge has ruled.
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The lawsuit, filed in 2013, alleged that Facebook scanned the content of private messages sent between users for links to websites and would then count any links in a tally of "likes" of the pages.
Those "likes" were then used to compile user profiles, which were then used for delivering targeted advertising to its users, the lawsuit said.
The complaint alleged that the scanning of the private messages violated the federal and California state law.
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we are, of course, not surprised, since facebook is in the business of stealing people's secrets. as this piece mentions in passing in talking about inter alia fitbit posting information about people's sex lives, if you can't figure out what a company's product is, it's you.