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Austria's Highest Court To Decide Whether To Allow Class Action Versus Facebook

Ron Burgundy

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Austrian data activist Schrems waits after trial against Facebook in ViennaAustrian student Max Schrems's attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook over its privacy policies will head to Austria's Supreme Court to determine whether such collective legal action is allowed, his group said on Monday. An appellate court has let Schrems file a personal claim but not allowed a class action to form, his Europe-vs-Facebook group said. "It would not make a lot of sense for the court or the parties before it to file these claims as thousands of individual lawsuits, which we can still do if a 'class action' is not allowed," Schrems said in a statement.




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