Austrian privacy campaigner files 'class action' suit against Facebook over privacy policy

Privacy campaign group Europe-v-Facebook is inviting Facebook users outside the United States and Canada to join a lawsuit against the company, which it alleges violates privacy laws. Europe-v-Facebook’s Max Schrems filed suit with the commercial court in Vienna, Austria, where he lives.

The suit accuses Facebook of “basic or obvious violations of the law.”

The alleged violations include the company’s privacy policy, its alleged participation in the Prism data collection program run by the US National Security Agency (NSA), its graph search; its tracking of users on third party websites, the use of “big data” systems that spy on users, and the company’s non-compliance with data access requests.