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Meta faces $3.1 bn lawsuit in UK over exploiting users' data
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IANS | 14 Jan, 2022
Meta (formerly Facebook) is facing a $3.1 billion class-action lawsuit
in the UK over allegedly abusing its market dominance and if the lawsuit
succeeds nearly 44 million British Facebook users could receive a $68
payout each.
Competition law expert Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen has
brought the class-action lawsuit against Facebook's parent firm Meta at
the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal, Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
The
lawsuit claims that Facebook should pay its 44 million UK users
compensation for the exploitation of their data between 2015 and 2019.
"It
is claimed this allowed the firm to generate billions in revenues from
their data, while users received no monetary returns, which the claim
labels an 'unfair deal', said the report.
The lawsuit alleged
that Facebook made billions by "imposing unfair terms and conditions
that demanded consumers surrender valuable personal data to access the
network".
"In the 17 years since it was created, Facebook became
the sole social network in the UK where you could be sure to connect
with friends and family in one place," Gormsen said in a statement.
"Yet,
there was a dark side to Facebook; it abused its market dominance to
impose unfair terms and conditions on ordinary Britons giving it the
power to exploit their personal data. I'm launching this case to secure
billions of pounds of damages for the 44 million Britons who had their
data exploited by Facebook," she elaborated.
Dr Gormsen is a
Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and
Comparative Law (BIICL) and the director of the Competition Law Forum.
The
lawsuit claimed that Facebook was able to impose terms and conditions
on UK users which enabled this data gathering because of its market
dominance.
The claim is being brought in London under the Consumer Act 2015.
Reacting to the lawsuit, a Meta spokesperson said that people access our service for free.
"They
choose our services because we deliver value for them and they have
meaningful control of what information they share on Meta's platforms
and with whom. We have invested heavily to create tools that allow them
to do so," the company spokesperson added.
The UK case came after
Facebook lost an attempt this week to strike out an antitrust lawsuit
in the US by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
US competition watchdog FTC can proceed with a breakup lawsuit against Facebook's owner, a federal judge ruled.
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