PATEL v. FACEBOOK, INC.

No. 18-15982.

932 F.3d 1264 (2019)

Nimesh PATEL, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated; Adam Pezen; Carlo Licata, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 8, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren R. Goldman (argued), Andrew J. Pincus , and Michael Rayfield , Mayer Brown LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant.

John Aaron Lawson (argued), Rafey S. Balabanian , and Lily Hough , Edelson PC, San Francisco, California; Jay Edelson , Benjamin Richman , and Alexander G. Tievsky , Edelson PC, Chicago, Illinois; Susan K. Alexander , Shawn A. Williams , and John George , Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, California; Patrick J. Coughlin , Ellen Gusikoff Stewart , Lucas F. Olts , and Randi D. Bandman , Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, California; Paul J. Geller , Stuart A. Davidson , and Christopher C. Gold , Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Boca Raton, Florida; Lawrence Sucharow , Michael P. Canty , Corban S. Rhodes , and Ross Kamhi , Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Susan Fahringer and Nicola Menaldo , Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington; Neal Kumar Katyal , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C.; Lauren Ruben , Perkins Coie LLP, Denver, Colorado; Thomas P. Schmidt , Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, New York; Sara Solow , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for Amicus Curiae Internet Association.

Nathan Freed Wessler , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Rebecca K. Glenberg , Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Chicago, Illinois; Jacob A. Snow , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Jennifer Lynch and Adam Schwartz , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California; Joseph Jerome , Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Landis , Illinois PIRG Education Fund Inc., Chicago, Illinois; for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Illinois PIRG Education Fund Inc.

Marc Rotenberg , Alan Butler , and John Davisson , Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Kelly P. Dunbar , Reginald J. Brown , Patrick J. Carome , Jonathan G. Cedarbaum , and Samuel M. Strongin , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Lehotsky and Jonathan D. Urick , U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Benita Y. Pearson, District Judge.


OPINION

Plaintiffs' complaint alleges that Facebook subjected them to facial-recognition technology without complying with an Illinois statute intended to safeguard their privacy. Because a violation of the Illinois statute injures an individual's concrete right to privacy, we reject Facebook's claim that the plaintiffs...

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