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Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages

Posted by timothy on from the we-were-only-doing-the-usual-peeking dept.

Rambo Tribble writes U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton on Tuesday denied Facebook's bid to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against the social media giant for violating users' privacy through the scanning of message content. In her rejection of Facebook's argument, the judge said the firm had, "...not offered a sufficient explanation of how the challenged practice falls within the ordinary course of its business."

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  1. Re:Yes, it's in FB's "ordinary [business] course" by koan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No the users of Facebook are the dense ones.

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  2. Re: Yes, it's in FB's "ordinary [business] course" by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I had a lot of sympathy for people on Facebook 4-5 years ago. After several years of repeated stories in the mainstream press about privacy violations, anyone who still has an account is guilty of wilful stupidity.

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  3. Re: Yes, it's in FB's "ordinary [business] course" by tsa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or they are very careful about what they post.

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