Facebook was tagged with a class action lawsuit Oct. 19 alleging the social media giant tracks locations despite users changing their privacy settings to prevent it.

Brought before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit alleges that Facebook tracked plaintiff Brett Heeger’s whereabouts despite his having “expressly attempted to limit” such “by turning the location history tracking and storage option to off” in his user account.

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