Judge Sides With Meta In Battle Over Location Data
Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has dismissed a class-action privacy complaint claiming the company wrongly collected location data about Facebook users via tracking software embedded in mobile apps.
In a ruling issued Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco essentially said the allegations in the complaint, even if proven true, would not show that Meta knew it didn’t have users’ permission to collect the data.
Lin dismissed the case without prejudice — meaning that the plaintiffs can beef up their claims and bring them again.
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