A federal judge in San Jose has denied class certification in a long-running case claiming that Facebook Inc. disclosed users’ personally identifiable information to advertisers when they clicked on some Facebook ads.
U.S. District Senior Judge Ronald Whyte wrote that individualized nature of the plaintiffs’ claims weighed against class treatment, but the reasoning behind his decision will remain a mystery for at least two weeks. All but three pages of Whyte’s 19-page order issued Tuesday were redacted. The judge wrote that he’d give the parties two weeks to seek to seal any “confidential information” revealed in his order.
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