SAN FRANCISCO — A new federal class action claims that Facebook violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act, as it operates as a credit-reporting agency, as “it regularly assembles and transmits information regarding consumers to third party advertisers, data brokers, researchers, and other third-parties, oftentimes for a fee.”
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