Android Users Amend Privacy Claims Over Facebook’s Data-Scraping Practices

Mealey's (January 24, 2019, 2:21 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — One month after a California federal judge dismissed their privacy and related claims against Facebook Inc. over a now-discontinued practice of scraping users’ call and text information from Android smartphones, a group of Android users on Jan. 22 filed an amended complaint realleging some of the dismissed claims and adding a claim of fraud (Lawrence Olin, et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01881, N.D. Calif.)....