Supreme Court Sides with Facebook in Text Message Dispute

By:  abcnews

April 2, 2021

 

 

The high court’s ruling for the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant was unanimous.

 

Democratic lawmakers and consumer groups said the court opened a gaping hole in the law, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, that would subject anyone with a cellphone to endless automated calls and messages.

 

The case was brought by a man who received text messages from Facebook notifying him that an attempt had been made to log in to his account from a new device or browser. The man, Noah Duguid, said he never had a Facebook account and never gave Facebook his phone number. When he was unable to stop the notifications, he filed a class action lawsuit.

 

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