Facebook app for illegal scanning of personal messages

Facebook seems to face once again legal problems with the privacy of its users.

This time a lawsuit was filed in the North against Facebook claiming that the systematically scans the mail of its users on the social , without their consent and makes money by sharing the data it collects with advertisers and commercial companies.

According to the lawsuit, Facebook may have violated federal privacy laws by scanning personal users' personal messages.facebook spying

Facebook reportedly systematically scans URLs found within users' private messages for various purposes, including protection, searches for industrial products, child pornography, the lawsuit alleges that the company also uses this data for targeted advertising and other services to the user.

The claimants, Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley, argue that Facebook scans and collects URLs in a form that facilitates the search, violating the Electronic Communications Act and the Privacy Act, as Verge said.

Facebook claims that the company scans users' mail and keeps it URL but in an anonymous way, which cannot be used by advertisers.

However, according to a technical analysis made on behalf of the plaintiffs, each message containing a URL is stored in "Titan," a private database containing messages that displays the date and time the message was sent, along with the identities of both users. sender and recipient.

However, it turns out that Facebook has been using this practice for years, but the company claimed it had stopped for a long time.

"We agree with the court that the alleged conduct did not lead to any real harm and that it would not be appropriate to allow the plaintiffs to seek compensation for the charge," a Facebook spokesman told CNET.

"The rest of the claims are about old practices that are perfectly legal, and we look forward to resolving these allegations on the merits."

However, according to the plaintiffs, Facebook continues to collect URLs from his users' mail.

"Facebook's source code not only reveals that Facebook continues to collect URLs from mail, but also that it continues to use the content it collects."

You can view the lawsuit below. THE it was originally filed in 2012 but now (finally), the case is expected to move forward.

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