Class Opposes Rehearing In Appeal Of Facebook Privacy Certification Ruling

(October 4, 2019, 1:23 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A class suing Facebook Inc. for violating an Illinois privacy law with its “tag suggestions” photo-tagging feature filed a brief on Oct. 1 asking the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to deny the social network’s petition to rehear en banc a panel’s affirming a trial court’s certification of the class, arguing that the ruling did not create any splits and did not invoke any questions of exceptional importance (In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 18-15982, 9th Cir.)....

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