Social networking sites Facebook A new lawsuit alleges that the service made a profit by scanning users’ private messages and selling various information obtained from them to advertisers. It claims that when a person exchanges a link through a Facebook message, it is scanned to monitor the user’s web activity. Possible.However, Facebook has said in the lawsuit that the allegations are baseless and that the company will fight back.
In case of loss in this case, for the alleged privacy violation related to daily messaging as claimed. Facebook There could be a fine of 100 or more. Or, the company could be fined up to 10,000 for each user.
This is not the first time Facebook has been accused of violating users’ privacy. The firm was severely criticized in September last year for displaying users’ names and profile pictures in advertisements.
Even then, Facebook claims that they have done so with the proper permission of the users. But in the end, the company paid a fine of 20 million US dollars in 8 cases filed in 2011.
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