Supporting Facebook In High Court, Amici Defend ‘Common’ Webpage Loading Practice

Mealey's (January 4, 2021, 1:27 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 28 brief supporting a petition for certiorari by Facebook Inc., four amici curiae tell the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ revival of Wiretap Act claims over Facebook’s purported tracking of users’ activity on third-party webpages “threatens to criminalize computer-to-computer communications that are common and fundamental to the operation of modern webpages.”...