A new proposed class action lawsuit accuses JPMorgan Chase of illegally sending sensitive personal information about its own customers directly to Facebook.
In a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, plaintiff Daniel Onn alleges that JPMorgan has committed widespread violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
According to the lawsuit, JPMorgan installed a Facebook tracking pixel on Chase.com that captured and forwarded Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, telephone numbers, addresses and confidential financial information of customers who completed credit card and home loan applications.
“Defendant aided, employed, consented, and conspired with Facebook to intercept communications sent and received by Plaintiff and class members, including communications containing sensitive financial information…
At all relevant times, Facebook may through its Business Tools intentionally and without the consent of all parties to the communication, or in any unauthorized manner, read, attempt to read and/or learn the content or meaning of the claimant’s and the plaintiff’s electronic communications Group. Members on one side and defendant on the other, while the electronic communications were in transit or being sent from or received at any place in California.
The lawsuit claims that Chase.com contains the code for at least ten different Facebook cookies to transfer the information.
On behalf of the class members, Onn asks the court to award statutory damages, punitive damages and prejudgment interest, in addition to other requests for damages.
JPMorgan has not yet issued a statement on the allegations.
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