Facebook by scanning personal advertising being placed under a class action

On December 25, according to foreign media reports, the United States a judge recently ruled that scan Facebook users to send information to others and take this advertising and marketing, this an invasion of privacy, the social networking site must therefore accept class-action lawsuits.

United States district judge in Oakland, California on Tuesday dismissed the part of the State-level charges against Facebook, but also rejected requests for immunity from prosecution to Facebook.iPhone 6 case

Facebook has previously argued that scans the user's messages on their behaviour, which belongs to the United States an exception to the provisions of the electronic communications privacy law. Exceptions are provided for in the law, service providers intercept behavior in the general business activities.

But the judge said the Facebook "failed to explain how such behavior can be classified into general commercial activities. "Facebook and plaintiff's Attorney did not respond to media requests for comment.

This case presented in 2013 before the courts. Plaintiffs accused of scan Facebook private messages between users, so as to get the Web site, and then put these sites into pages "like" number.

Then, these "like" will be used to improve user information, Facebook will send targeted advertising based on this information. Suit says scanned private information in violation of California law and United States federal laws.

Tuesday's verdict showed that Facebook in October 2012 to stop this behavior. But the company said he was still analyzing some news, aims to protect users from viruses and spam abuse.

Initiation of proceedings is a Facebook user, Matthew · Campbell (Matthew Campbell). He tried to represent those who have sent in private messages site United States users launched class-action lawsuits. One2more