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posted by martyb on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.

The decision... gave Facebook a win in a lawsuit that accused the company of improperly tracking users' Internet usage... even after they had logged out of their Facebook accounts.

Facebook had promised that logging out would delete the cookies, the lawsuit charged.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ruled that plaintiffs in the lawsuit "have not established that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy".

Additionally, the decision said the plaintiffs failed to establish a "realistic economic harm or loss".

Darn it! As a member of the injured class, I was looking forward to winning a coupon for 1 month of free facebook use.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:50AM (#536397)

    Not just Amazon, your bank probably has bugs reporting back to Google or Facebook too.

    Just so that ads can be sent to you after the need has passed?

    And the businesses where you are a customer sell you out so that Google and Facebook can present you with competitive ads?

    Can't wait for the next tech crash when the return on advertising investment gets questioned.

  • (Score: 2) by TheB on Saturday July 08 2017, @10:40AM

    by TheB (1538) on Saturday July 08 2017, @10:40AM (#536490)

    Every bank account/credit card agreement I've seen in the last several years has allowed selling your purchase history.
    Netflix recently changed their TOS to allow selling viewing history.
    My university, against students wishes, sold access to student records.
    Even when a company states in their TOS they will never share your info, courts have allowed whomever buys them to ignore any existing privacy agreement.

    Any data you leak can be sold.

    It's almost unavoidable that parts of our lives will become training sets for future AI.