The National Football League was sued for allegedly sharing digital subscribers’ personal data with Meta’s Facebook, becoming the latest target of consumers claiming companies pass on private information to the social media site without their consent.
NFL.com subscriber Israel James of Illinois sued the league in Chicago federal court Wednesday seeking to represent hundreds of thousands of other subscribers of the website in a class action.
The world’s largest social network has been sued and investigated by regulators over privacy issues over the last decade, most often over allegations that the company illegally collects information on users that it uses for targeted advertising.