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According to TechCrunch, British competition law expert Liza Lovdahl Gormsen has teamed up with legal firm Innsworth to file a £2.3 billion class action lawsuit against Meta on behalf of 4,400 UK Facebook users in the UK over Facebook’s abuse of user data in violation of competition law. According to them, while users can use Facebook for free, it also provides Facebook with valuable personal data.
“They exploited users’ personal data without compensation,” Lovdahl Gormsen said in a statement. “I don’t think users would know how unfair this is when they press confirmation under the User Regulations. She also said that Facebook is currently “the only social network in the UK that allows users to connect with family and friends in one place”, even if the Meta ecosystem (including WhatsApp and Instagram) has firmly locked users in the premise. However, they still do cross-site tracking. “They abused their market dominance by imposing unfair terms on the Britons to exploit people’s data,” Lovdahl Gormsen said.
The time period covered by this class action is from October 2015 to December 31, 2019, and unless a user voluntarily opts out, after the Lovdahl Gormsen vs Innsworth case, you don’t have to do anything to get your money back from Meta compensation there. “People can use our service for free, they choose our service because we can bring value to them, and at the same time, they can also have good control over the information and who they share on the Meta platform. In order to achieve such a We put a lot of resources into the results,” a representative of Meta said in an interview with The Guardian.
Aside from the UK, Meta hasn’t had a good time in the US lately. The FTC’s monopoly lawsuit filed in federal court is likely to move down. The FTC wants Meta to sell WhatsApp and Instagram, because sitting on these two social platforms is an “anti-competitive behavior” that is not conducive to opponents. .
