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60,000 Join Australian Student’s Facebook Class Action

Over 60,000 Facebook users have joined a class action lawsuit initiated by an Austrian law student against the social media site. Filed at the European Court of Justice, the Facebook class action lawsuit “passed its first legal review” with the Vienna Regional Court setting a four-week  time frame for the defendant to respond.

Max Schrems’ lawsuit seeks 500 euros for each of the 1.32 billion active Facebook users, who arre subject to privacy violations. Facebook Ireland, which is responsible for international activities of the social media site, is named as the defendant.

One of the allegations raised includes the report of data mining help extended by Facebook to the US National Security Agency for the Prism surveillance programme . This led to acess to the personal data of millions of Facebook users.

The privacy violation lawsuit claims this a violation of European law that bans tracking users’ activities on other sites and using their personal data.

The intial list of class action plaintiffs inluded 25,000 Facebook users from more than 100 countries, who joined the litigation against the $195 billion company. In the recent weeks another 35, 000 have expressed their eagerness to join the class action.

Lloyds and Barclay Lawyers are among top legal luminaries in Australia with vast experience in privacy violation lawsuits. We offer legal assistance and representation to victims of privacy violation protecting their right to lead a dignified, safe and secure life, punish perpetrators and seek exemplary punitive damages. Contact us to know how our lawyers can help you protect your dignity and take legal action against those responsible for violation of your rights in any form while seeking course correction and punitive damages.