Facebook Inc. plans to appeal lower court decisions greenlighting a biometric privacy lawsuit against it to the U.S. Supreme Court, escalating a fight over who should be able to sue.
The social media giant has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay its decision not to overturn a California federal district court ruling that plaintiffs can sue the company under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Circuit courts around the country have differed on the standing question, but federal courts in California, including the Ninth Circuit, have tended to side with plaintiffs. Facebook wants the ...
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