Civil Litigation
May 30, 2019
Facebook lawyers said users had ‘no reasonable expectation of privacy’ in bid to dismiss suit
The federal judge overseeing allegations that Facebook Inc. illegally shared vast amounts of users’ personal information considered Wednesday if people could reasonably understand that they agreed to let the company sell private data to third parties.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A U.S. judge overseeing allegations Facebook Inc. illegally shared vast amounts of users' personal information considered Wednesday if people could reasonably understand that they agreed to let the company sell private data to third parties.
An attorney for the social media giant argued Facebook not only "bluntly and repeatedly" alerted users to the practice but also informed them there is "no reasonable expectation...
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