Two Canadians launch class-action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging misuse of personal information

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Two Canadians launch class-action suit against Facebook, alleging it misused their personal information

The proposed class-action lawsuit filed by Calgary residents Saul Benary and Karma Holoboff asks the Federal Court to order the social-media giant to bolster its security practices to better protect sensitive information and comply with federal privacy law.

The probe followed reports that Facebook let an outside organization use an app to access users' personal information, and that some of the data was then passed to others. About 300,000 Facebook users worldwide added the app, leading to the potential disclosure of the personal information of approximately 87 million others, including some 622,000 Canadians, the report said.

As a result, Therrien launched his own Federal Court action in February, asking a judge to declare that Facebook violated Canadian privacy law. In their application to the court, however, Benary and Holoboff say they were informed by Facebook in April 2018 that their information “had been disclosed to Cambridge Analytica without their consent.”

 

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