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Legislation and Regulation Keyed to Eskridge, 1st Ed.
Facebook v. Duguid
Citation:
141 S. Ct. 1163 (2021)Facts
Facebook maintains a social media platform with an optional security feature that sends users “login notification” text messages when someone attempts to access their Facebook account from an unknown device or browser. To use this feature, users must provide and verify a cell phone number to which Facebook can send messages. In 2014, Noah Duguid began receiving several login notification text messages from Facebook alerting him that someone had attempted to access a Facebook account linked to his phone number. However, Duguid had never created a Facebook account and had never provided his phone number to Facebook. Despite his attempts to stop these unwanted messages, they continued. Duguid subsequently filed a putative class action against Facebook, alleging that the company violated the TCPA by maintaining a database that stored phone numbers and programming its equipment to send automated text messages to those numbers when associated accounts were accessed by unrecognized devices.
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