Facebook sued for allegedly intercepting private messages

Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating its members' right to privacy. The social network is being sued by members who claim that the company intercepts private messages, without consent, to mine the data for its own profit, according to a CNET report.

The suit filed in the Northern District of California accuses Facebook of scanning private messages with URLs in them for the purposes of user profiling and data mining.

The suit, according to the CNET report, claims Facebook has violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

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