Editor's note? Facebook is class-action lawsuit by 60,000 users-Facebook, Internet privacy, network security-IT news
Editor's note? Facebook is class-action lawsuit by 60,000 users

On August 22, according to foreign media reports, for alleged violations of user privacy, Facebook recently suffered up to 60,000 users of class-action lawsuits. The case made by a Austria law student makesi·sikeruimusi (MaxSchrems), then obtained the support of 60,000 users, and passed the first law review.

Submitted to the European Court of Justice in the proceedings book, Schrems accused Facebook of helping United States National Security Agency (NSA) to extract users ' personal data. He asked Facebook to each user to pay 500 euros (about 663 million u.s. dollars).

Currently, Facebook worth $ 195 billion, with 1.32 billion active users.

Schrems, litigation at the Vienna Regional Court had accepted Schrems, and made for Facebook International Affairs of Ireland company within four working days to respond to the lawsuit, including how to assist the NSA to extract users ' personal data.

After support at 25,000 users, Cisco Bettina Rheims listed earlier this month the list of plaintiffs, in order to facilitate verification and management each of his lawyers on. Subsequently, another 35,000 users in www.fbclaim.com enrolled in the class-action lawsuit, the lawsuit probably will expand in the future.

Currently, Facebook Ireland company did not comment on the matter.