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Justices Decline to Halt $35B Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

Posted on January 22, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Nicholas Iovino reports:

 The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Facebook’s last-ditch effort to derail a $35 billion class action claiming the company harvested millions of users’ facial data without consent.

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The Supreme Court’s denial means a trial initially scheduled to start in July 2018 will soon be placed back on the calendar. The trial was postponed pending appeal in May 2018.

Read more on Courthouse News.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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