Williams v. Facebook, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 LAWRENCE OLIN, et al., Case No. 18-cv-01881-RS (TSH)

8 Plaintiffs,

DISCOVERY ORDER

9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 110 10 FACEBOOK, INC., 11 Defendant.

12 13 The parties have filed a joint discovery statement concerning whether Plaintiffs Lawrence 14 Olin, et al., may disclose Defendant Facebook, Inc.’s source code to their proposed experts, Dr. 15 Istvan Jonyer and Dr. Jae young Bang. ECF No. 110. The Court continued the hearing on this 16 dispute pending a ruling on Facebook’s motion to dismiss. On October 31, 2019, the parties filed 17 a status report concerning this dispute, ECF No. 144, and the Court heard oral argument today. 18 By way of background, Plaintiffs are suing Facebook for its alleged exploitation of a 19 vulnerability in the permission setting for the Facebook Messenger1 smartphone application that 20 existed in prior versions of the Android operating system. Sec. Am. Compl. ¶ 1, ECF No. 88. 21 When users install the app, they are prompted to grant Facebook access to their…