Facebook ‘View As’ Data Breach Class Complaint Mostly Dismissed

Mealey's (June 25, 2019, 9:30 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on June 21 mostly granted a motion by Facebook Inc. to dismiss a putative class action over a 2018 data theft via the social network’s “view as” feature, finding that only one of the remaining plaintiffs established standing and that most of his claims were not sufficiently pleaded or were precluded under California law (William Bass Jr., et al. v. Facebook Inc., No. 3:18-cv-05982, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104488)....