Facebook has once again been sued as Brooke Rutledge of Mississippi even alleges that the social networking giant violates federal wiretap laws. It can be rightly said that Facebook and violations go hand in hand. Of late, the social networking site has been sued in multiple states, which was to track its users even after they logged out of the site. In regards to the said case, each and every lawsuit alleged that the company has violated federal wiretap laws.
After a number of allegations were made against Facebook, the company has denied the fact even twice, which was after the company fixed the issue twice. But it seems that the allegations refuse to die in the said case. Facebook is not troubled by this problem, as similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, including Kansas, Kentucky, and Louisiana.
The recent lawsuit filed this week at the US District Court in Mississippi, focuses at seeking class action status for millions of Facebook users. The claim made relates to breach of contract, unjust enrichment, trespassing, and invasion of privacy.
In fact, the complaint had a lot to note as it stated, “Leading up to September 23, 2011, Facebook tracked, collected, and stored its users’ wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to portions of their Internet browsing history even when the users were not logged-in to Facebook.” This was not all, as it further noted, “Plaintiff did not give consent or otherwise authorize Facebook to intercept, track, collect, and store her wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to her Internet browsing history when not logged-in to 
Facebook.”
Brooke was not the only one to file a case against Facebook this week. Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub even filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Facebook user Janet Seamon. The allegation in this case was quite identical, as he accused the social networking giant of collecting and storing users’ Internet browsing history without their permission. Ieyoub has even requested a judge to give the lawsuit a ‘class action’ certification. If this is to happen, then the charges Facebook would be liable to pay would be, as unspecified punitive damages and statutory damages, $100 for each day that each class members’ data was “wrongfully obtained” or $10,000 for each alleged violation.
Looking at the controversy’s effect last week, John Graham had filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court in Kansas against Facebook. The lines of the claim was same, but he had asked an additional point to the federal court, which was, ‘whether the interception was intentional, the extent of communications intercepted and stored, and whether the court should prohibit Facebook from intercepting such communications when a user is not logged in’.
Another case last week, was noted as Facebook user David Hoffman filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court in Kentucky against the site. Like Ieyoub, Hoffman had even requested a judge to grant the suit class-action status.
Noting the act, the lawsuits have have filed under a provision of the federal Wiretap Act that prohibits interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications.