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Meta Unlawfully Collects Personal Data From Underage Children Using Facebook, Instagram: Lawsuit

Meta Unlawfully Collects Personal Data From Underage Children Using Facebook, Instagram: Lawsuit
Logos of social networks Facebook and Instagram on the screens of a tablet and a mobile phone in a file photo. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
Katabella Roberts
11/28/2023|Updated: 11/29/2023
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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta routinely ignores reports of underage users on its platforms and has “coveted and pursued” the underage Instagram user demographic for years, according to a newly redacted complaint accompanying a lawsuit filed in October by the attorneys general of 33 states.

The complaint is part of a wider federal lawsuit filed by the coalition of attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California last month.

Katabella Roberts
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Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.
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