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The Supreme Court Is Leaning Toward a Digital Privacy Victory

The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a customer who invoked a semi-obscure federal law to sue Paramount for sharing his personal information with Facebook, during oral arguments on Wednesday, though multiple justices signaled that they might constrain such lawsuits in future cases. The case, Salazar v. Paramount Global, has significant…

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