A court in Milan has given the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit on behalf of tens of millions of Facebook users affected by a data leak. According to the court ?order, the data scraping incident, ?which took place between January 2018 and ?September 2019 and was disclosed ?by Facebook parent Meta in 2021, affected around 533 ?million Facebook users globally. The CTCU consumer association seeks compensation on behalf of social media ?users who lost, or feared losing, ?control over their personal data in breach of ?the ?EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision, which is ?a procedural ruling only and ?makes ?no finding that Meta violated any law,” a Meta spokesperson said, adding: “We are confident ?this ?meritless action will ultimately ?be dismissed.”