Facebook Lawsuit

• Meta’s Facebook agrees to settle data privacy lawsuit

  Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties access the private data of users.

  Tech

  Aug 26, 2022
  
• Judge tosses Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking reinstatement of Twitter account

  The judge said Trump failed to show Twitter violated his right to free speech by permanently banning his account in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

  World

  May 7, 2022
  
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• Ngola lawsuit: Could Facebook be held responsible for hateful comments about a former N.B. doctor?

  Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is suing Facebook, alleging it failed to curb the racism and hate directed toward him after he was accused of starting a COVID-19 outbreak.

  Canada

  Jan 26, 2022
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• Donald Trump launches lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, Google

  Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is suing America's three biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs.

  World

  Jul 7, 2021
• U.S. judge calls Facebook’s views ‘so wrong’, lets class action lawsuit proceed

  U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said users could try to hold Facebook liable under various federal and state laws for letting app developers and business partners harvest their personal data without their consent on a "widespread" basis.

  World

  Sep 9, 2019
• Google and Facebook sued by EU, Trump suggests lawsuits are out of line

  "She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

  World

  Jun 26, 2019
• Facebook sues 3 people, 4 companies in China for pushing sale of fake likes, followers, accounts

  Facebook, in its lawsuit, said "inauthentic activity has no place on our platform."

  Tech

  Mar 1, 2019
• Toronto law firm hits Facebook with class action lawsuit after security breach

  The social media company announced last week that about 50 million user accounts worldwide had been accessed by hackers, with another 40 million left vulnerable during the attack.

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2018
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• Facebook faces class-action suit over facial recognition technology

   A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission.

  Tech

  Apr 17, 2018
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• Facebook Messenger users file lawsuit over collection of call, text history

  Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company.

  Tech

  Mar 28, 2018