An Austrian law student has filed a class action lawsuit at a commercial court in Vienna against Facebook over privacy violations.
Max Schrems wants to receive damages of 500 euros (₹41,000) per user for the violations by the social network, urging the 1.32 billion Facebook users to join him in his legal battle, media reports said Sunday.
Facebook has a long list of violations.
'For this class action lawsuit, we have chosen basic or obvious violations of the law: The privacy policy, participation in the PRISM programme, Facebook's graph search, apps on Facebook, tracking on other web pages and 'big data' systems that spy on users or the non-compliance with access requests,' Schrems wrote on Facebook Class Action website.
The legal proceeding will run as a class action because the Austrian law allows a group of people to transfer their financial claims to a single person.
'Our aim is to make Facebook finally operates lawfully in the area of data protection,' the 26-year-old student was quoted as saying.
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