Williams v. Facebook, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LAWRENCE OLIN, et al., Case No. 18-cv-01881-RS (TSH)
Plaintiffs,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: Dkt. No. 110 FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant.
12 The parties have filed a joint discovery statement concerning whether Plaintiffs Lawrence Olin, et al., may disclose Defendant Facebook, Inc.’s source code to their proposed experts, Dr. Istvan Jonyer and Dr. Jae young Bang. ECF No. 110. The Court continued the hearing on this dispute pending a ruling on Facebook’s motion to dismiss. On October 31, 2019, the parties filed a status report concerning this dispute, ECF No. 144, and the Court heard oral argument today. By way of background, Plaintiffs are suing Facebook for its alleged exploitation of a vulnerability in the permission setting for the Facebook Messenger1 smartphone application that existed in prior versions of the Android operating system. Sec. Am. Compl. ¶ 1, ECF No. 88. When users install the app, they are prompted to grant Facebook access to their…