Facebook facing Aussie compo bid

FACEBOOK is facing a major compensation claim and a possible lawsuit on behalf of up to 300,000 Australian users who had their personal information allegedly improperly shared with political campaign outfit Cambridge Analytica.

Johnson Winter Slattery will today file a complaint against the social media giant with the Australian Information Commissioner alleging breaches of the Privacy Act. The law firm is being supported by litigation funder IMF Bentham to consider a lawsuit. with the next couple of years’ production at Incat focused on large vehicle and passenger ships for overseas clients,” he said.

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Personal information of 87 million users wound up with Cambridge Analytica, which had worked on the Donald Trump campaign and the Brexit vote, after they or their friends on the network used the “This is My Digital Life” app.

That data — including political views, religious beliefs and other personal information — was used to target different advertising campaigns at users.

In a statement, IMF Bentham said the Australian Information Commissioner could make a number of findings which included a penalty operator, Molslinjen, which seated 1000 people and up to 411 cars.

The shipbuilder has expanded from a core of 200 employees to more than 550 and has a bulging order book against Facebook, but that “may not produce a recovery for members of the complainant group”.

“In light of this, IMF will determine at a later stage if it will fund any class action against [Facebook] arising from the alleged breaches of the Australian Privacy Principles,” the statement reads.

A Facebook spokesman said: “We are fully co-operating with the investigation currently under way by the Australian Privacy Commissioner and will review any additional evidence that is made available when the UK Office with two further wavepiercing catamarans also on order.

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is already auditing Facebook to confirm what personal information was part of the data breach.

The company has since shut down the option for thirdparty apps to take content about a user’s Facebook friends.

The Saturday Telegraph recently revealed Facebook was also under investigation for potentially breaching privacy rules by refusing users to sign up under a pseudonym.