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PRIVACY CONCERNS
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Privacy Concerns
According to an article published by Los Angeles Times on 2nd January 2014, Facebook had been sued by its users for allegedly scanning their private messages. The article further stated that according to a lawsuit that had been filed in a federal court in San Jose, Facebook scanned the messages from its users to improve its marketing algorithm. The ‘like’ button linked the users’ information to third party websites. The issues of privacy concerns especially in the social media have been on the rise due to lack of well-defined laws that protects the users against the infiltration of their privacy rights by site owners. Moreover, the rising cases of cyber crimes and other related malicious activities via the internet have seen most users’ data being under threat. The site owners and providers such as Facebook have contributed to the infringement of their customers’ privacy rights by allowing third parties to access their client’s information.[latimes,. 2014. 'Facebook Sued Over Alleged Scanning Of Users' Private Messages'. /business/tec...