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Why Users In The US Sued Facebook?

The lawsuit against Facebook was filed after Facebook’s statement stating the company has resolved the data breach issue.

Why Users In The US Sued Facebook?
Why Users In The US Sued Facebook?

American online social media and Social Networking service company Facebook has been sued by its users in the United States over claims that the network carelessly allowed hackers to compromise as many as 50 million accounts.

The lawsuit against the social networking giant was filed after Facebook’s statement stating the company has resolved the data breach issue.

According to an article published BloombergQuint, the lawsuit accuses the social network of violating Competition Law, negligence, and concealing “grossly inadequate” Security measures.

In general, criticisms against the Facebook are wide-ranging, including:

  • Unsafe psychological effects on users
  • Cooperation with governments
  • Facebook scrutiny of users and non-Facebook users
  • Allegations of Facebook ignoring the theft of content from YouTUbers
  • Trolling pages
  • Mining User Data

As of January 2018, Facebook has over 2.2 billion monthly active users.