Claims Over Facebook’s Third-Party Data Sharing Mostly Survive Dismissal

Mealey's (September 10, 2019, 4:14 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a detailed Sept. 9 ruling, a California federal judge mostly denied Facebook Inc.’s motion to dismiss consolidated class claims against it related to the sharing of users’ personally identifiable information (PII) with a British data analytics firm, with the judge finding that for most of the allegations, the plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded an injury and established their standing to sue the social network (In re Facebook Inc., Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, No. 3:18-md-2843, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153505)....