Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School, was quoted by cnet.com on the importance of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to send Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins back to the 9th District U.S. Court of Appeals.
Privacy experts have described the case as an acid test for when and how consumers can sue companies over privacy violations. If the court said the intangible harms Robins described in his lawsuit were inadequate, it could have made it much tougher for anyone to sue under civil rights and privacy statutes.
Instead, “the court clearly recognized that intangible privacy harms are actionable,” said Joel Reidenberg, director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School.