Reid v. Sun Publishing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• plaintiffs plausibly alleged interception where they alleged Facebook used software that scanned URLs contained in users’ messages and then used that information for targeted advertising and to gather “likes” for those URLs
• plaintiffs stated a claim where they specifically alleged that “Facebook uses a software application called a ‘web crawler’ to scan any URLs that are contained in messages” to use for “like counters” and targeted advertising
• “any 11 consent with respect to the processing and sending of messages itself does not necessarily 12 constitute consent to the specific practice alleged in this case – that is, the scanning of message 13 content for use in targeted advertising.”
• explaining the relationship between CIPA and the Federal Wiretap Act
• challenging Facebook’s scanning of “private” messages
• challenging Facebook’s scanning of “private” messages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).