Facebook claims these are confidential business matters. As part of the January filing, it claims Facebook tracked users extensively, sometimes without consent. On iPhones it could access most photos, including those that had not been uploaded to Facebook, Six4Three claims. It also collected information sent by non-subscribers to friends or contacts who had Facebook apps installed on their phones, the court documents claim. Because these people would not have been Facebook users, it would have been impossible for them to have consented to Facebook’s collection of their data.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2018 12:02 UTC