Suit Claims Facebook Scanning Users’ Private Messages

Links that Facebook users send to one another via private messages on the site are being scanned as “likes” and added to the data that Facebook sends to third-party marketers, according to a lawsuit filed in a San Jose federal court. Plaintiffs are looking to certify the case as a class action on behalf of all Facebook users who have sent or received private messages that included web links in the last two years and who may not have realized that the contents of those messages were being scanned.