A Canadian law company has filed a class-action lawsuit beside Facebook, alleging the social networking corporation mismanaged users' private information and violate their privacy. Merchant Law Group LLP filed the lawsuit on July 2 in Queen's Bench court in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The law firm, which has class-action lawsuits as a large part of its business, filed the suit on behalf of Donald J. Woligroski, a Winnipeg resident and a registered Facebook user, and other class action members for an unspecified amount of damages.
The suit competes that Facebook subjected Woligroski to violate of privacy and the embezzlement of his private information. It as well claims that Facebook purposely used his information for commercial reasons, calling the corporation's actions "hateful, purposeful, and cruel."
"The preserve’s performs of dishonesty and oversights have break the duty of care it owed to its users and have caused the plaintiffs to undergo wound, financial loss, and damages, which they continue to undergo," the lawsuit states. "Facebook has established and taken an offhand and random approach with respect to its lawful responsibilities to the applicant and class members and the methods by which Facebook distorted to its profit, its privacy policies and how Facebook would share, use and distribute the personal information of the plaintiff and class action members." This lawsuit adds to Facebook's new privacy anguish.



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