Judge:  Stored Communications Act Protects Myanmar Officials’ Facebook Content

Mealey's (December 7, 2021, 11:16 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vacating a magistrate’s ruling and sustaining an objection by Facebook Inc., a District of Columbia federal judge on Dec. 3 concluded that copies the social network keeps of private pages and communications that it has deleted are protected under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) from disclosure to the Republic of the Gambia in a foreign genocide proceeding because they constitute items in electronic storage....