Days after the announcement by Europe v. Facebook’s Max Schrems on the filing of a class-action lawsuit “inviting adult noncommercial Facebook users located anywhere outside the U.S. and Canada to join in … (the) civil action has pulled in some 11,000 participants,” TechCrunch reports. About 50 percent come from “German-speaking countries,” the report states, and a Europe v. Facebook spokesperson 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.
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