In the United Kingdom, several legal experts led by Liza Lovdahl Gormsen have come together to file a complaint against Meta. The latter claim 2.3 billion pounds sterling from the group, or 2.8 billion euros, in compensation for the 44 million Facebook users in the country.
No time to breathe for Meta. After the record fine imposed on it by the CNIL a few days ago, the web giant is facing new legal action from the United Kingdom. This time, it’s no longer funny. The group of experts, led by Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, claims no less than 2.3 billion pounds sterling, or €2.8 billion at Facebook’s parent company. Again, the social network is implicated for its unscrupulous espionage practices.
The group of experts explains that it acts on behalf of the 44 million British users who visited the platform at least once between 2015 and 2019. Dr Lovdahl Gormsen accuses Meta of having made its tool available to “unfair price”. To have the right to share their daily life and have access to Facebook content, users had to agree to share all of their personal data.
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“In the 17 years since its inception, Facebook has become the only social network in the UK where you could be sure to connect with friends and family in one place”relates Liza Lovdahl Gormsen. “Yet Facebook had a dark side: it abused its dominant market position to impose unfair conditions on ordinary Britons, allowing it to exploit their personal data. I am launching this case to obtain billions of pounds in damages for the 44 million Britons whose data has been exploited by Facebook. »
The complaint wishes to focus in particular on the beacon casewhich recently made headlines again with Firefox’s “Facebook Pixel Hunt” initiative. Liza Lovdahl Gormsen explains that “You may know that your data will be used by Facebook. But what pixels do is when you use a third-party website, which of course has nothing to do with Facebook. This means that Facebook has created many, many, many more data points about you than you actually knew you had signed. »
Source: TechCrunch