{"id":252045,"date":"2026-05-21T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:10:15","slug":"meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Defeats App Users&#8217; Location Data Privacy Suit For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2480939\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good\">Meta Defeats App Users&#8217; Location Data Privacy Suit For Good<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2480939\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good\">https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2480939\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 22:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.law360.com\">www.law360.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Lauren Berg ( May 21, 2026, 10:40 PM EDT) &#8212; A California federal judge Thursday shut down for good a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company&#8217;s tracking software, again finding the complaint doesn&#8217;t plausibly allege that Meta knew it didn&#8217;t have permission to access this data&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h3>Law360 is on it, so you are, too.<\/h3>\n<p>A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>A Law360 subscription includes features such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily newsletters<\/li>\n<li>Expert analysis<\/li>\n<li>Mobile app<\/li>\n<li>Advanced search<\/li>\n<li>Judge information<\/li>\n<li>Real-time alerts<\/li>\n<li>450K+ searchable archived articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"try-free\">Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2480939\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Defeats App Users&#8217; Location Data Privacy Suit For Good https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2480939\/meta-defeats-app-users-location-data-privacy-suit-for-good Publish Date: 2026-05-21 22:40:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/images\/law360-stacked.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-252045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252047,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252045\/revisions\/252047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}