Facebook sued for violating privacy
The Consumers’ Association and the Data Privacy Foundation “Data Privacy Stichting (DPS)”. Have joined forces to force Facebook to pay compensation via a subpoena. The Consumers’ Association calls on consumers to join the campaign.
Facebook is accused of collecting private data from its users and their Facebook friends for years and making this data accessible to third parties without permission. The company made a lot of money with that. Facebook users were also misled: the platform falsely promised that the use would always be free, when in fact users “paid” with their data. Facebook thus enriched itself unjustified and at the expense of its users.
Read more about this here: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/ 2020 / consumer-association-facebook-must-compensate-users