The claim has been filed with the High Court in London and alleges Facebook allowed an app to access the personal information of users without their consent.
By Press Association 2021
Facebook on a phone
A mass legal action has been launched on behalf of at least one million UK Facebook users over claims that the social media giant failed to protect their personal data.
The representative claim has been filed with the High Court in London and alleges that Facebook allowed a third-party app to access the personal information of users without their knowledge or consent between November 2013 and May 2015.
It is claimed the social network’s settings permitted the app, called This Is Your Digital Life, to harvest the personal information of not only the users of the app, but also their Facebook friends.