IRONY: Dismissal Of Privacy Suit Missed By Many
While the press corps churned about a public relations snafu that most of the 675 million Facebook users couldn't care less about, a federal judge opened the floodgates for five privacy lawsuits to get refiled against the social network.
Oh, the irony! While the press corps churned about a public relations snafu that most of the 675 million Facebook users couldn’t care less about, a federal judge opened the floodgates for five privacy lawsuits to get refiled against the social network.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, California, handed down a decision enabling plaintiffs to refile five out of eight claims of privacy violations.
He nixed Facebook’s claim that the entire lawsuit ought to be dismissed because the complainants didn’t show a sufficient injury that would warrant the case.
The specific gripe here concerns the privacy controversy that arose this past October: When Facebook users click on advertisements, the advertisers receive the clicking parties’ identification.
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