More than 25,000 people have so far signed on to join privacy advocate Max Schrems' complaint against Facebook. However, it will be up to the Austrian Supreme Court to decide whether they can make their cases jointly as a class action lawsuit. Schrems, an Austrian citizen, filed a lawsuit aganst Facebook Ireland in July 2014, alleging that the social networking giant's handling of user violated European privacy laws. Both Schrems and Facebook appealed to Austria's Supreme Court after the Vienna Court of Appeal issued...
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