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What Is Max Schrems's Lawsuit Against Facebook?

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Data privacy activist Max Schrems has successfully led a lawsuit against Facebook to the Austrian Supreme Court while the social media company also faces a privacy complaint from the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC).

Schrems hopes that the lawsuit would be accepted as a class action case as the Viennese lawyer attracted the attention of tens of thousands of adult Facebook users who were not staying in either the United States or Canada and wanted to complain about the site.

The lawsuit filed by Schrems tackles the various EU data protection laws allegedly being violated by Facebook, according to TechCrunch. Some of the breaches in privacy include the lack of consent to certain data gathering processes, the recording of user data outside Facebook

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