Legal Opinion
Williams v. Facebook, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided December 18, 2018No. Case No. 18-cv-01881-RSPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARD SEEBORG, United States District Judge *1046I. INTRODUCTION
Defendant Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") is a global social media and networking company. It owns and operates a website and smartphone applications for Android and iOS such as Facebook Messenger and Facebook Lite. In March 2018, the news website Ars Technica reported Facebook apps for Android were programmed to scrape user call and text data to monetize the information for advertising purposes. Facebook allegedly scraped data by exploiting a software vulnerability in the permission settings of older versions of the Android OS. When…
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