Facebook’s High Court Privacy Fights Lead 2020 Lawsuits to Watch

Privacy attorneys and academics say they’ll be watching Facebook Inc.'s battles to overturn court rulings on biometric privacy and robocalls in 2020, as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the cases.

The social media giant is petitioning the justices to review a pair of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decisions that may impact how courts view the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Each law carries high statutory fines.

Both cases give the high court an opportunity to clarify issues they’ve been “grappling with for some time,” Amanda Fitzsimmons, a privacy ...