Plaintiffs are asking the Court of Appeals, San Francisco, to revive complaints filed in 2010 and dismissed a year later, seeking that Facebook and Zynga “be ordered to face claims that users’ identities and activities on the social networking platforms were disclosed to third parties without their consent,” Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Judge Richard Tallman said Congress could not have envisioned “the alleged violations of the Stored Communications Act in its ‘wildest dreams’ when it wrote the law,” the report states. He indicated he was “skeptical anyone was misled by the privacy policies that are being challenged” but acknowledged “there has to be substantial value to the information” or companies would not gather it, the report states.
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