Facebook loses bid to dismiss privacy lawsuit over message scanning

[Himanshu Arora]

A US judge has denied Facebook's request to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing the company of violating its users' privacy by scanning the content of their private Facebook messages for advertisement purposes.

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[tipstir]

If FB every goes forth with this ad scan, I think I'll pull the plug myself on FB.

 

[Kibaruk]

I'm thinking in plugging myself out too, I'm only using it to keep contact with a couple people so... not entirely up for the idea of having my messages read, nor to have to use whatsapp to have a quick update