Plaintiff Amends Negligence Class Claim In Facebook ‘View As’ Lawsuit

Mealey's (August 21, 2019, 9:20 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The last remaining plaintiff in a consolidated lawsuit over the September 2018 data breach that affected Facebook Inc.’s “view as” feature filed an amended class complaint Aug. 16, following a California federal judge’s ruling that disposed of most of the claims against the social network, alleging that Facebook owed a duty to safeguard the personally identifiable information (PII) of its users, with which it has a “special relationship” (Stephen Adkins v. Facebook, Inc., No. 3:18-cv-05982, N.D. Calif.)....