Facebook app for personal data exploitation

Οι μηνύσεις στο Facebook φαίνεται να έχουν γίνει μόδα. Όλο και περισσότεροι άνθρωποι εναντιώνονται στο μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο αντιδρώντας στην ανεξέλεγκτη εκμετάλλευση των προσωπικών τους .

A 26-year-old lawyer from Austria, along with 25.000 other members of the social network, filed a lawsuit against Facebook this week at the Commercial Court of Vienna. facebook court

Austrian Max Schrems will face Facebok in court for how he collects and uses his users' data. The lawsuit also mentions how the social network uses the Like button to track its members' choices, as the BBC says.

The charges contained in the lawsuit also allege that Facebook engaged in the NSA's Prism surveillance program in 2007, as revealed by Edward the 2013.

Claimants require 500 Euros for each given data collected by the company without their consent.

But as Max Schrems says, money is not the only reason for him to go to court.

He stated that he wants to end once and for all in facebok mass surveillance and make sure that citizens' data is absolutely safe.

"There are a lot of issues in the lawsuit and we hope to win them all in a landmark case against the US data collection services. ”

The Austrian started this fight for the protection of personal data, as when he was studying abroad (for some time at a Silicon university ) was very disturbed by the fact that "the belief of Silicon Valley is that it can do whatever it wants in Europe."

The Facebook has not commented on the issue.

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