Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the 622,161 Canadians who may be among 87 million people whose personal data was improperly harvested. A lawsuit filed Wednesday at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is the second class-action to hit the Silicon Valley heavyweight over the Cambridge Analytica drama. The lawsuit seeks $62,216,100 in punitive damages, or $100 for each of the 622,161 Canadians Facebook says may have had their info swept up by Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is not named as a defendant in the Canadian class action, which only names Facebook and Facebook Canada. Both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are defendants in the U.S. class action.

Source: thestar May 02, 2018 22:38 UTC