X Defeats User Suit Over Marketing Use of Email, Phone Number

X convinced a California appellate court that an user’s class action alleging the social media platform wrongly used of personal information for marketing purposes wasn’t viable.

Henry Yeh sued Twitter in March 2023—months before it would rebrand as X—for allegedly using emails and telephone numbers for marketing purposes when it promised only to use them for security and authentication. The California Court of Appeal, First District, affirmed X’s trial court win, holding that X’s privacy policy couldn’t reasonably mean what Yeh said it did.

Yeh’s breach of contract claim failed because X’s privacy policy clearly stated that it ...