Three users sue Facebook over collection of call and text history

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31 pointsSirLJ3 comments

Oh oh, here comes the class action suit against Facebook. The legal sharks will be circling. This could get nasty.

How would this even work? Didn't they explicitly agree to a terms of service with facebook that gave facebook access to their data? Didn't they do this while freely choosing to use facebook's services which they presumably derived some benefit from?

I'm not a fan of facebook's data gathering methods, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it. But this lawsuit seems totally without merit.

I feel the lawsuit has merit because Facebook acted in bad-faith with the permissions that they were given.

For example, if I say yes to the "Allow Facebook to access your pictures" prompt when I want to send a single picture to a group chat, then I expect Facebook to simply use the permission to accomplish the task I wanted to do and send the single picture.

Instead Facebook takes that permission, scans every single picture on my phone and sends back data so Facebook can do facial recognition or any other type of image analysis.

We give Facebook an inch and they are taking miles.

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