{"id":483,"date":"2021-02-15T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=483"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:44:55","slug":"facebook-sued-for-losing-control-of-users-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/facebook-sued-for-losing-control-of-users-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users\u2019 data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook is being sued for “losing control” of the data of about a million users in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The alleged failings were revealed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where harvested data was used for advertising during elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Journalist Peter Jukes, leading the action, claims his data was compromised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook told BBC News there was \u201cno evidence” UK or EU users\u2019 data had been transferred to Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the case against the technology giant, expected to last for at least three years, will argue a \u201closs of control\u201d over users’ personal data warrants individual compensation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The harvesting of Facebook users’ personal information by third-party apps was at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, exposed in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cambridge Analytica’s app on Facebook had harvested the data of people who interacted with it – and that of friends who had not given consent.<\/p>\n

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The action seeks damages from Facebook over failure to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Facebook spokesman said: “The Information Commissioner’s Office investigation into these issues, which included seizing and interrogating Cambridge Analytica’s servers, found no evidence that any UK or EU users’ data was transferred by [app developer] Dr [Aleksandr] Kogan to Cambridge Analytica.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Mr Jukes told BBC News it was not about \u201cwhere the data went\u201d but rather \u201cthat Facebook didn\u2019t care”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“They didn’t look after it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In October 2018, the UK’s data-protection watchdog fined Facebook its maximum penalty of \u00a3500,000 for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Facebook had allowed a “serious breach” of the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook apologised and allowed users to check which “banned apps” had accessed their data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A similar mass legal action was filed against Facebook in October, by the group Facebook You Owe Us, represented by law firm Milberg London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Because of the cases’ similarities, the High Court may decide to merge the two or hold them simultaneously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Although there is no precedent for such a mass legal action in the UK, there is in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Google agreed to pay a record $22.5m (\u00a316.8m) in a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the same issue in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company also settled out of court with a small number of British consumers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: BBC News<\/p>\n

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