The University of San Diego's Children's Advocacy Institute is calling for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to revise its 2013 settlement regarding the agreement’s potential allowance for Facebook to gather children’s data sans consent in the company’s sponsored stories. The institute asks for the appellate court to rehear the trial “en banc,” MediaPost reports. The institute filed the motion on behalf of a parent, maintaining that, “the settlement will affect the privacy rights of more than 10 million U.S. teens,” the report states. “It is respectfully imperative that the panel decision be reheard," the group said. "The unprecedented consequences of allowing a commercial entity to limit privacy rights of millions of children through a contract most of those children (and their parents) will not see must not be taken lightly."
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