In a statement issued by US-based law firm Edelson McGuire, which specialises in internet, technology, privacy, banking, and consumer issues, it was revealed that a class action lawsuit has been filed against FarmVille creator Zynga.
The case has been brought as a result of the recent leak of details by certain Facebook apps, including Zynga’s, as discovered by The Wall Street Journal.
The lawsuit was filed in California yesterday by Nancy Graf of Minnesota, seeking “monetary relief for those whose data was wrongly shared, and injunctive relief to prevent continued privacy abuses.”
Michael Aschenbrener, co-lead attorney for the class action lawsuit, said: "This appears to be another example of an online company failing the American public with empty promises to respect individual privacy rights."
Aschenbrener and fellow co-lead attorney Kassra Nassiri, of litigation firm Nassiri & Jung, are also stated as being co-lead class counsel in a case filed against Facebook in Rhode Island, which also involves a privacy breach.
The Wall Street Journal says that the case against Facebook “was originally filed by in June in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island over an earlier breach and was amended Monday to include the latest incident. It relies on one of the same federal laws cited in the Zynga case.”
The Journal posted on its website that it has received an email statement from a Facebook spokesman saying that the company sees no merit to the case and intends to fight it.
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1Hope you could help us also about zynga banning people in farmville saying they violated their TOS. But then they unban other player and not giving any reason for other players why they are still banned. If they are all violated the same exact violation.