Facebook Allowed To Intervene In Privacy Group’s FOIA Suit Against The FTC

Mealey's (September 3, 2019, 9:22 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facebook Inc. has sufficiently demonstrated that it has an interest in protecting certain purportedly proprietary documents it provided to the Federal Trade Commission from disclosure in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) against the commission, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled Aug. 28, granting the social network’s motion to intervene in the suit (Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 1:18-cv-00942, D. D.C.)....