SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton is set this week to be the latest jurist in the Northern District of California to grapple with how decades-old federal wiretapping laws apply to today’s technology. On Wednesday, Hamilton is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Facebook Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company scanned users’ messages illegally.
Plaintiffs lawyers, headed up by Michael Sobol at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, sued Facebook in December 2013 on behalf of a proposed class of the social network’s users. They claimed the company illegally intercepted private messages sent via Facebook whenever users included a link to an outside website.
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