Facebook Charged with Mining, Selling User Data in Class-Action Suit

Facebook has been named in a class-action suit over allegations the social media site takes users’ private messages and scans them for potential advertising purposes.

The suit was filed by in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California this week.

Among the allegations, ZDNet reported: Facebook scans and monitors user messages that are supposed to be private, and then takes select content to generate profiles about online activity — which is then sold for profit to marketers and advertisers. Those advertisers then allegedly use the information to build and target ads specific to those users.

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