Civil Litigation
Oct. 17, 2019
Facebook seeks standing ruling in data privacy dispute
Facebook asked the judge overseeing the lawsuit about the Cambridge Analytica scandal to grant a rare appeal that may pause the case while higher courts weigh in.
Technology companies have long argued users cannot sue them for privacy violations when they are supposedly unharmed as a result of the misconduct.
Courts have interpreted the defense with varying results. Alphabet Inc.-owned Google got a San Jose federal judge to toss a case by advancing the same argument in 2013 as did Apple Inc. two years earlier.
Facebook has not been as successful in more re...
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