by Wendy Davis
Google, Facebook and others in Silicon Valley are urging the Supreme Court to effectively block consumers from bring federal class-action lawsuits over a large swath of privacy violations.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday, Google, Facebook, eBay, and the trade groups Internet Association, Technology Network and Computer & Communications Industry Association argue that consumers must experience an “actual” and “concrete” injury before bringing a privacy lawsuit.
The tech companies and trade groups (referred to in the papers as "amici") write that they are "frequently subjected to opportunistic lawsuits” based on alleged violations of privacy laws -- including the Wiretap Act (which restricts the interception of electronic communications), the Video Privacy Protection Act (which prohibits companies from disclosing people's video-viewing history without consent) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (which regulates robotexting and robocalling).
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