More than 60,000 people supported class action against Facebook

In 2011, Max Schrems, a law student at the University of Vienna, began an unequal battle with Facebook. For a start, he sent several well-written requests and achieved, after all, that from the central office they sent him a CD with all personal data collected during the three years of his activity on the site.

Max Schrems received a PDF of more than 1200 pages , all information in the file was divided into 57 categories (work, education, friends, political views, hobbies, photos, etc.). As Max says, even the KGB did not have such a complete dossier on citizens. But the most surprising thing is that, among other things, the sent file contained deleted messages, chat sessions, names of former friends and other data marked “deleted”: true.
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To date, Max Schrems has initiated a class action lawsuit against Facebook in the Vienna Regional Court. 60,000 people from 100 countries have already joined the lawsuit. Each of them claims for damages in the amount of 500 euros.

As part of the lawsuit, Facebook is accused of violating the rights of citizens to the confidentiality of information, including the transfer of personal data of users to US law enforcement agencies under the PRISM program.

The Vienna Regional Court has already accepted the case and confirmed that Facebook representatives (units in Ireland) will be summoned to the court as a defendant in the case.



You can join the class action on this page .

The Vienna Regional Court has the right to satisfy the claim if the respondent does not file a response claim. In case each of the 60,000 people receives compensation, the total amount of payments will be 30 million euros.