Judge Dismisses Facebook Privacy Suit Over Android Data-Scraping Practices

Mealey's (December 21, 2018, 11:33 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a Dec. 18 order, a California federal judge dismissed privacy and related class claims against Facebook Inc. related to a now-discontinued practice of scraping users’ call and text information from Android smartphones, finding that the plaintiffs did not properly plead necessary elements of fraud or concrete harm (Anthony Williams, et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01881, N.D. Calif.)....