Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media company’s views on privacy “so wrong.”
While dismissing some claims, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said users could try to holdliable under various federal and state laws for letting app developers and business partners harvest their personal data without their consent on a “widespread” basis.‘s arguments that users suffered no “tangible” harm and had no legitimate privacy interest in information they shared with friends on social media.
Lesley Weaver and Derek Loeser, two of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, said in a joint statement that they were pleased with the decision, and “especially gratified that the court is respectingThe litigation followed a series of data privacy issues involving Menlo Park, California-basedThese included the 2015 breach that allowed Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, to access data for an estimated 87 millionIn their 414-page complaint, users saidmisled them into thinking they could...
That position is “closer to the truth than the company’s assertions in this case,” Chhabria wrote. “Sharing information with your social media friends does not categorically eliminate your privacy interest in that information.”users in the United States and the United Kingdom whose information was shared with third parties without their consent since 2007.Inc Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 18-md-02843.