Wendy Davis reports:
Facebook was hit with another lawsuit this week alleging that it improperly shared users’ personal information with advertisers.
This case, the third such lawsuit in as many weeks, was filed in federal district court in Rhode Island by North Providence Facebook user Wendy Marfeo, who is seeking class-action status.
As in the other lawsuits, she alleges that Facebook violated its privacy policy by sharing users’ names with advertisers via referrer headers. Marfeo alleges that Facebook broke its contract with her and also violated federal wiretap law.
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