Cybersecurity Policy Report, Supreme Court Rejects Privacy Challenge to Facebook, (Nov 5, 2024)
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By Lynn Stanton
The Supreme Court today declined to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (San Francisco) in Susan Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc., et al. (case 24-5699). Ms. Lloyd was suing over disability access and privacy issues, including online tracking even when logged out of her Facebook account.
The Supreme Court’s action leaves in place the Ninth Circuit’s finding that Ms. Lloyd’s claims under the Americans With Disabilities Act about lack of disability access to the Facebook platform failed because Facebook was not a place of public accommodation and that she did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy because Facebook’s data policy provided clear notice that third-party partners may share data with Facebook.
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