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Class action filed against Facebook over Android metadata collection

News | 09/17/2018 12:35 pm EDT
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Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it handles user privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal – this time, specifically over how it collected and used Android phone metadata.

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