Gameloft Privacy Investigation: Was Your Personal Info Illegally Shared?
Last Updated on October 3, 2024
At A Glance
- This Alert Affects:
- Facebook users who played certain mobile games published by Gameloft and made an in-app purchase within the past two years.
- What’s Going On?
- Attorneys working with ClassAction.org have reason to believe that the games may be using a tracking tool to secretly transmit details about certain players and their in-app activities to Facebook. They’re now looking into whether legal action can be taken over potential violations of a federal privacy law.
- Which Games Are Under Investigation?
- Dragon Mania Legends, Gangstar New Orleans, Gangstar Vegas – Mafia Action, and Modern Combat 5.
- What You Can Do
- If you downloaded any of these games and made an in-app purchase in the past two years (and you had a Facebook account at the time), fill out the form on this page to learn more about what you can do.
- How Could Legal Action Help?
- It’s possible that players could recover money for potential privacy violations.
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org suspect that game publisher and developer Gameloft may have violated the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by sharing certain players’ private information without permission and are now looking into possible legal action.
Specifically, the attorneys suspect that Gameloft may be using tracking tools in the following games to secretly transmit players’ data to Facebook for advertising purposes:
- Dragon Mania Legends
- Gangstar New Orleans
- Gangstar Vegas – Mafia Action
- Modern Combat 5
If you have a Facebook account, downloaded any of the games above and made an in-app purchase in the past two years, learn more about what you can do by filling out the form on this page.
After you get in touch, an attorney or legal representative may reach out to you directly. It’s possible you could be owed money for potential privacy violations.
How Could a Mobile Game Share Data with Facebook?
Developers can gather data about the people who use their apps via invisible tracking tools, including those created by Meta.
These tools, which can be embedded in any app, can be programmed to record users’ activities, including the buttons they click and the audio/visual content they view.
In this case, attorneys are specifically looking into whether Gameloft is tracking players’ in-app activities in the games listed above and sending that information to Meta along with each person’s Facebook ID. This is a unique identifier that can be used to match the data to a player’s individual Facebook profile.
The attorneys believe this data is covered under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits “video tape service providers” from disclosing any information that identifies the video materials a person has requested or watched to third parties without their consent, and may have been illegally disclosed to Facebook.
In general, the data collected by tracking tools can be used by both the app developer and the social media giant to better target advertisements.
Take Action
If you played Dragon Mania Legends, Gangstar New Orleans, Gangstar Vegas – Mafia Action, or Modern Combat 5 and made an in-app purchase in the last two years while having a Facebook account, fill out the form on this page today.
It’s possible that attorneys could help you and other players recover money for any potential privacy violations.
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