A U.S. judge has ruled that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit, which accuses it of violating its users’ privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes. U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland denied Facebook’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed by Facebook users Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley in 2013. According to the suit, until October 2012, when Facebook says that it stopped the practice, it scanned the contents of private messages sent between users for links to websites. The information was then used for delivering targeted advertising. By doing so, Facebook violated the federal and state privacy laws, which they broke by reading their users’ personal and private Facebook messages without their consent. Read more http://www.voicechronicle.com/201412-facebook-will-face-law-suit-for-reading-users-private-messages
