Company Facebook has been accused many times over time of spying on its own users, but now someone has thought of suing the American company to prove that users' messages are partially saved by the company.
More precisely, Facebook scans all links shared by users in private messages, partly to check if they do not contain viruses/malware or links to illegal websites, but partly to analyze for marketing purposes everything shared by users.
Because it stores these links in its own database that can be accessed by its employees, the Facebook company is accused of violating American federal legislation and was sued the other day, having to prove that everything is a lie.
The plaintiffs' lawyers claim that the latter had access to part of the source code of the Facebook website, but also to the company's employees, and the data stored by the company can be used for any purpose by those who have access To them.
The records that Facebook creates from its users' private messages, and which are stored indefinitely, may be put to any use, for any reason, by any Facebook employee, at any time. Facebook's source code not only reveals that Facebook continues to acquire URL content from private messages, but that it also continues to make use of the content it acquires.
I don't know how many people imagine that Facebook protects their identity or data, but there will certainly be people very unhappy to learn that their links are analyzed very carefully by the Facebook company, even if they are shared through Messenger.
Considering that we are talking about a process that is only at the beginning, it remains to be seen if a judge will consider the complaint sufficiently grounded to order the start of a process to find out how Facebook works.
