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MORE THAN 25,000 people have signed up to support a class action suit against Facebook over the company’s alleged violations of its users’ privacy.
The suit, filed by lawyer Max Schrems who started the group Europe Vs Facebook, claims a symbolic €500 per plaintiff from Facebook for a number of alleged violations of the law. Since it was filed last Thursday
The number of participants has been limited to 25,000 Facebook users for now as the group will have to “verify and administer every individual claim.”
europe-v-facebook / TwitterWe passed the 25.000! Thank you for the huge support of our class action! Interested users can still register at http://t.co/P0A9N7ki7X
— europe-v-facebook (@europevfacebook) August 6, 2014
The alleged violations include its involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) in running PRISM, which took the personal data of users from numerous web services, and tracking users’ visits to other websites via the ‘Like’ button.
In a statement, Schrems said “With this number of participants we have a great basis to stop complaining about privacy violations and actually do something about it. If we are successful, the outcome will of course have a positive impact on all users.”
Users from more than 100 countries had signed up to the class action, the majority coming from Europe. Germany, Austria and Netherlands have the most users taking part while Ireland had 174 users participating since early yesterday.
europe-v-facebook / Twitter@J_K9 @maxschrems 174 right now.. ;)
— europe-v-facebook (@europevfacebook) August 6, 2014
Schrems already has a case involving Facebook pending at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Back in June, the High Court referred the case, which involved the Irish Data Commissioner’s decision not to investigate Facebook over its involvement with PRISM, to the ECJ to clarify a number of issues.
The class action was submitted at the Commercial Court for Vienna last Thursday against Facebook’s Irish headquarters.
(Additional reporting from AFP)
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Push notification – ah here
@Mills: haha I reckon it only went to people who opened the story earlier… Scarlett for Yer ma!! :p
@Mills: You only get them if you have push notifications turned on for the app…
@Mills: I still get push notifications of sports scores for some reason. It’s head wrecking because that’s why I turned them off! They just ruin the result of matches, fights etc. that I want to watch later. My work phone has them on and I got one for this story on it but I don’t use the journal on that phone so I’d imagine it was just sent to everyone.
@Mills: I switched them as they seem think any old nonsense is worthy.
I really liked our entry. The young man is a nice singer. Good luck in final.
Fair play! That’s a lovely little song. Deserved!
@Callum: Yes. but sounds a bit too much like stings Every breath you take. hope i’m wrong.
Marty Whelan needs a new pair of jocks.
Brilliant !!!!! I am counting down the days until Saturday night now
@David Clarke: I think I’m happier for Marty than the lad singing.
He should be fine, he has been a (disc) jockey for 40 years…
@Alana: i know, but wheres all the haters gone????
@Alana: 4 days
@Alana: About four days Al.
YES!! Well deserved. Great song and perfect performance.
Well done Ryan Shaughnessy fantastic performance of a beautiful song!!
Woohoo!!!!!
@Jane: You guys, keep it down,
@Patabake Kennedy: sorry
@Jane: Ah, well, hope that we relive the yeaster years. Cheers.
Marty almost in tears. The two lads having the, eh, fun in the background would have appealed to the voters.
Great, we won’t have to dig up Dana..
@Dingleberrycity: is Dana dead?
@Denis McGrath: haven’t laughed that hard in years, nice one lads.
@David Ryan: hilarious. Love it.
Yes!!! Finally, well have qualified, I can’t believe it, feels like we won it, Amazing! Well Done!
Praise Jesus! I can sleep sound tonight!
@Tweety McTweeter: amen
Delighted……. But some of the pure Sh@ite that qualified was unbelievable……
Congratulations Ireland
@Isabel Oliveira: @men
We do got the gay vote with the background thing going on haahh
@kevinhunt101: He’s a good singer but the song is only average, nothing special. You can bet it was the “gay vote” that got us through.
@Shane Corry: always one begrudger.
Better get the 3 arena ready for next year so.
@Tom Harpur: Pairc Ui Chaoimh
@Tom Harpur: *The Point
@Tom Harpur: back to Millstreet-that was some coup, bringing the Eurovision to a horse arena…..
@Tom Harpur: The phone box in rathmines
In fairness i thought it was the best song in the group….that’s just me very catchy the more ya listen to it .
I’ll put down the rosary beads so
What’s another year?
Woohoo what a night to be Irish
@Kenneth O Brien: best in the world
Bout time
DO….NOT…..CARE.
@Neil A Campbell: What’s sad about your comment is that you clearly have nobody else to tell that to only strangers on the internet that DO….NOT…CARE!!
@Neil A Campbell: Clearly! You open the article, scroll to the end AND comment and you expect us to believe you don’t care?! Ha
The glory days have returned.
Can’t believe Isreal is heavily fancied!
@Daithi De Roiste: if that Israeli song wins… They should cancel the Eurovision for good!
@Sean Leonard: What’s the problem? Israeli good.
@Daithi De Roiste: Home come they let an apartheid country from the middle east take part ?
@MrMagoo: I agree, MrMagoo. Turkey should be kicked out. After actually completing the ethnic cleansing of Armenians and Pontic Greeks from mainland Turkey and actually ethnically cleansed Greeks and most Maronites from Northern Cyprus as well as having constructed a separation wall there, and currently ethnically cleansing Kurds while imposing a different legal system on them, Turkey should be kicked out. *facepalm*
@MrMagoo: Exactly, coming from Europe, stealing the native peoples land and committing genocide against them and subjecting those that survived to second class status and discrimination – oh no wait, that’s Australia oops
@Damon16: ah stop Australia was robbed at Eurovision as well!
The Gay dancers clinched it for us
@Tim The Bear: Exactly! RTE played the homosexual card and it came up trumps but it won’t save them on Saturday night! Song itself is crap. As for Israeli entry total garbage, don’t know how that could be fancied. Estonia streets ahead of the competition so far!
That’s made my week, open top bus for Ryan when he returns on Saturday.
@Aging Lothario: Ah at least give him a chance to perform in the final. We can do the bus on Sunday.
Get all the kids back to school to practice waving minature tricolours to line the route.
This truly is breaking news
Jesus didn’t see that coming. At least it might shut up the let’s send Dustin again crowd!
Not bad …. not bad at all !
Bloody delighted!!! Roll on Saturday night.
Do I care??? Eh…no!!!
@Michael Carolan: Cared enough to click on the article and comment though!
@Sean O’Shea: Yep. Giving my opinion.
@Michael Carolan: I’m sure people care that you don’t care. Even if the Eurovision is not your cu of tea as it is not mine, Surely you will support a fellow Irishman. We don’t do well at much as a country so I will certainly we rooting for him.
Our song was miles better
Such dribble but Marti gives it a boost with the slagging off :-)
How did Rugged Island get on?
Israel heavily fancied hehe
@Aimoo: #freepalestine
Ah, Israel have good songs, but we have to try harder not to win.
@James_665: #freepalestinefromhamas fixed it for you
He was great! Bit of a sam smith vibe!
That’s Saturday sorted
Enjoy it, that’s as far as you’ll get.
@James O’Brien: I bet you are wrong we will get in the Top 4 and might win ..Up Ireland.
Soooo happy wahoooo
Did not warrant a notification on my phone!
Must change my settings ,its wasting my time as we speak
ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ
A bunch of begrudges!
Don’t fancy our chances up against Björk’s mother singing for Israel.
LOOKING FORWARD TO GRAHAM NORTONS COMMENTS ON IT.
Not good, after our previous mortifying attempts it might have been less cruel if Ireland’s name wasn’t mentioned.
Push notification for this nonsense? Ya know Trump just tore up the Iran deal?
@Cathal O’Neill: why did you run?
@Cathal O’Neill: Turn off push notifications then.
@Cathal O’Neill: Its a nice escape from the horrific trumpamzee shyte that’s in the news every other hour of the day.
Hear we go from Rte All kinds of everything reruns
Just heard the good news.. Congratulations Ryan .
#KeepTheRecoveryGoing
Hadn’t a clue it was on.Must have missed Irish competition
Best of luck to whoever it was.About time.
Is it worldvision song contest.?
@Peter Coen: Think that’s the charity. Don’t sing as far as I know.
Sure the rest of them just want to party for 10 days in ireland!
and the orher half of them will hide in Guinness barrels so not to go home!!
That’s a bit gay..
What a load of shiiite
Another reprehensible,useless, contribution towards obscurity.
@Red Pirate 71: The song or your comment?
Never seen so much shite in one place in all me life.
yawn
What an Anemic song, sounds like a demo track, singer has all the depth and power of a 90 year old doing a pee. But yeah great stuff!!
Yeah
Who gives a f#@k
@Caroline Mullin: People who open the article, scroll to the end and then take the time to post a comment. So clearly you give a f#@k
“Damn you Father Dick Byrne!”
Good to see what I’m paying a TV licence for, utter sh*te.
Media hyping up israel. Load of garbage.
Great Ireland qualified for Eurovision with together. Hope it’s a good sign for #Together4Yes
Anything higher than Null Point and it’s an open top bus victory parade
Congrats Ryan – love the song
The Eurovision is a freak show…
And sadly thats as far as it goes ..
WE WON…!!!! WE WON….!!!
I thought the song was awful. Awful shame Switzerland didn’t make it though.
Like we give a crap!!
RTE will be shi**ing a brick.
RTÉ will be lobbying and pushing for doubled and tripled licences for everything, as usual. Any day now I expect to be forced to buy a dog licence for the privilege of walking through a public park.
Ever heard of GDPR, Journal? F*ck off.
@Paddy Reid: ???
What load bulls* *t.
‘Twas The Gay Snow that won it!
It’s this sort of crap, if merely a minor irritation with the really pretty shitty state of the value systems in Irish society right now, that tempts me to try and spend a long weekend in Switzerland, on some bleak estate, gearing up for that self-imposed injection in my arm…
Yahoo 2 are in no wait until they complain about payment if IRELAND WIN.
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