04 July, 2017
The company was accused of tracking online activity even after users logged out of Facebook, but a district judge has thrown out the nationwide litigation.
The plaintiffs filed that Facebook abused government and California protection and wiretapping laws by putting away treats on their programs that followed when they went to outside sites containing Facebook "like" options.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila said that Facebook Inc.
When a user visits a page with an embedded "like" button, the web browser sends information to both Facebook and the server where the page is located.
Internet privacy has been a much-discussed issue since President Donald Trump signed a bill in April repealing rules passed a year ago under former President Barack Obama that would have given internet users greater control over what internet service providers can do with their data.
The judge also said they didn't prove that they suffered any "realistic" economic loss or harm or that Facebook illegally spied on their communications.
While the plaintiffs cannot bring the same case up to the court again, they could reopen their previous breach-of-contract claim. Facebook did not immediately respond to a similar request.
Australian internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic first discovered that Facebook was apparently tracking users' web browsing after they logged off in 2011.
Legal counselors for the plaintiffs did not quickly react on Monday to demands for input.
