Dan Goodwin reports: Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts and…
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Law That Made Social Media Possible Faces Supreme Court Test
Greg Stohr reports: A set of US Supreme Court cases could transform the legal landscape for social media companies by the end of the court’s term in late June, with potentially wide-reaching implications for political discourse and the 2024 elections. The justices have already agreed to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for…
Ireland fines Meta $414m for using personal data without asking
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: A legal saga between Meta, Ireland and the European Union has reached a conclusion – at least for now – that forces the social media giant to remove data consent requirements from its terms of service in favor of explicit consent, and subjects it to a few hundred million more euros in…
High School Students Can Be Disciplined for Racist Private Instagram Account–Chen v. Albany School District
Eric Goldman writes: The Supreme Court’s Mahanoy decision left many issues for the lower courts to resolve about when schools can discipline students for social media posts. This opinion from the Ninth Circuit starts to fill in some of the gaps. The case involves several Albany High students, including Epple and Chen. In 2016, Epple created a…