Within in a week of the announcement by Europe v. Facebook’s Max Schrems of the filing of a class-action lawsuit inviting Facebook users from outside of the U.S. and Canada to join in, the total participants had topped 25,000, BBC reports. A Europe v. Facebook spokesperson previously noted, “Reasonable numbers come from all European countries and South America.” The class-action is targeting what the group describes as “unlawful acts” by Facebook, including its alleged support of the U.S. NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and lack of “effective consent” for many uses of user data, the report states. “Facebook has not commented on the wider case being brought against it,” the report states.
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