A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc users whose personal informat...
) users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but can seek better security at the social media company after a series of privacy lapses.
Alsup also said damages for time users spent to mitigate harm required individualized determinations rather than a single classwide assessment. “Facebook’s repetitive losses of users’ privacy supplies a long-term need for supervision,” at least at this stage of the litigation, Alsup wrote.Lawyers for the Facebook users did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Facebook did not immediately respond to similar requests.
Facebook has faced many lawsuits over privacy, including for allowing British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica access data for an estimated 87 million users.
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