Birmingham, AL (WIAT) - A local woman says she's had enough of Facebook, and the company's constant privacy setting tweaks.

Now, she's seeking a class action lawsuit. Alexandria Parrish claims Facebook has been collecting and selling personal information.

Parrish is a Homewood based attorney that knows a thing or two about consumer rights after all her Facebook page lists that expertise under her profile.

Now that expertise is being put to work as Parrish has filed suit in federal court claiming that she never gave the social media network permission to: "intercept, track, collect and store her electronic communications."

Parrish referred CBS 42 to her Mobile based attorney Peter Mackey who did not return calls for comment.

But Cumberland School of Law professor Woodrow Hartzog isn't surprised by the claims.

Hartzog says, "Facebook has a habit of changing their privacy settings pretty regularly in ways that often upset many of their users. I don't know if there is anything with this particular round that's going to be any different."

Part of the problem Hartzog says is that the law's quoted in the lawsuit were written in 1986, predating the internet and social media.

And that gives the courts little room to maneuver. "Courts have been really reluctant to recognize mere collection of information and certain uses of information as a tangible privacy harm."

But while cases like this will continue to be filed. There are things you can do to limit how you are tracked through social media.

Tech expert David Powell suggests using a dedicated browser for social media and nothing else.

"If you keep your browsing habits to only that browser the cookies aren't tracking anything and there's some settings you can set in the browser so that when you close out of a browser session it deletes all your cookies, it deletes all your temporary files."

And Powell also reminds social media consumers to consider what they’re giving up for free social networking.

"Cookies are a way for them to monetize your browsing habits as a way to make money for them. And that's the way that they make money and I think that they've done a lot of surveys and people aren't willing to pay to use Facebook. So as long as it's a free service they're going to take that opportunity to gather information about you."

Facebook did not respond to inquiries by CBS 42 regarding the lawsuit.