California Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment For Facebook On Its CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, And Penal Code Section 502 Claims Against Social Media Aggregator

For the past three years, social media platform Facebook has pursued legal action against social media aggregator Power Ventures (“Power”) over what it has viewed as a blatant violation of state and federal law. Filed by Facebook in December 2008,  the suit alleges violations by Power of the CAN-SPAM Act in addition to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) (18 U.S.C. § 1030) and the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (California Penal Code § 502). Facebook generally alleged that Power accessed its website in an unauthorized manner, and then utilized this unauthorized access to send unsolicited and misleading commercial emails to Facebook users.

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