An
Austrian law student has filed a class action lawsuit at a commercial
court in Vienna against Facebook over privacy violations.
Max
Schrems wants to receive damages of 500 euros (Rs.41,000) per user for
the violations by the social network, urging the 1.32 billion Facebook
users to join him in his legal battle, media reports said Sunday.
Facebook has a long list of violations, the student said,
“For
this class action lawsuit, we have chosen basic or obvious violations
of the law: The privacy policy, participation in the PRISM programme,
Facebook’s graph search, apps on Facebook, tracking on other web pages
and ‘big data’ systems that spy on users or the non-compliance with
access requests,” Schrems wrote on Facebook Class Action website.
The
legal proceeding will run as a class action because the Austrian law
allows a group of people to transfer their financial claims to a single
person.
“Our
aim is to make Facebook finally operates lawfully in the area of data
protection,” the 26-year-old student was quoted as saying.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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