By Tony Connelly

Facebook’s European legal challenges continue to mount up after a court ruled that the social network’s ‘friend finder’ feature was violating laws on data protection and unfair trade practices.

Germany’s highest court ruled that Facebook’s ‘friend finder’ feature constituted advertising harassment, bring to an end a case that was filed in 2010 by the Federation of German Consumer Organizations(VZBV).

The recruitment feature invites users to grant Facebook permission to vacuum up all the e-mail addresses of contacts in the user’s address book and allow it to send an invitation to non-Facebook users to join the platform.

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Source: The Drum