Dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's new FriendFinder function.

A federal judge in California dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's new FriendFinder function yesterday, according to TechCrunch, a prominent tech blogger.

Robinco Robyn Cohen, who represents a group of Facebook users, accuses Facebook of illegally encroaching on the names and preferences of many users to promote their FriendFinder services. The new Facebook service encourages users to make friends with users who choose to upload their own e-mail contacts.

The Robinco case was dismissed as early as June 28, 2011, but the plaintiff later filed a change of suit. The federal judge dismissed the case again in Thursday. The judge said the plaintiff had failed to prove that Facebook illegally used the user's name and preferences to cause any financial loss to the user.

Facebook has said earlier that its actions have not harmed the plaintiff, and that the website privacy Policy already stipulates that the user's name and photos belong to public information.

"We support the decision of the Court and we are very pleased that the lawsuit was dismissed," said Sandeep Solanki, Sandipsolanchi's legal advisor. ”

It was not the first class-action lawsuit against Facebook that was dismissed. In September, the Los Angeles High Court dismissed another class-action lawsuit against Facebook. The plaintiff in the lawsuit accused Facebook of using the names and preferences of teenage users for third party advertising without the consent of the parents of young users.