$3.7B UK mass action against Facebook over market dominance rejected – for now

The claimants say that Facebook users were not properly compensated for the value of the personal data they had provided to the platform.

LONDON, UK – Facebook on Monday, February 20, temporarily fought off a collective lawsuit valued at up to 3 billion pounds over allegations the social media giant abused its dominant position to monetize users’ personal data.

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of the Facebook group, faces a mass action brought on behalf of around 45 million Facebook users in Britain. Her lawyers last month asked the Competition Appeal Tribunal to certify the case under the UK’s collective proceedings regime – which is roughly equivalent to the class action regime in the United States.

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